The UK’s prisons will run out of space despite plans to channel several billion pounds into building four new jails, the ...

Many British prisons are so overcrowded that some prisoners were released this autumn to free up space. The British ...

Some 4,500 more prison spaces are needed every single year to keep up with demand but locking people up cannot be the be-all and end-all of dealing with offenders, writes Sean O’Grady ...

Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald has revealed in a written Parliamentary reply the urgent need for 50,000 ...

Indonesia aims to pardon around 44,000 prisoners, including activists and non-violent drug offenders, to relieve overcrowded ...

More than 1,000 incarcerated people have been relocated back to western North Carolina prisons after being transferred due to ...

"We're just housing them, feeding them, keeping them alive", says prison officer who does not believe rehabilitation is ...

The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusing the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, GA of engaging ...

In the budget, the Government committed €525 million to tackling overcrowding in prisons. Overcrowding has been repeatedly ...

The Government has said it will build four new prisons within the next seven years in a bid to grip the overcrowding crisis.

Britain will consider adding a new intermediate tier to its court system, the justice ministry said on Thursday, as the ...