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

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

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

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 ...

Everyone knows that prison is a tough place to be – both for the incarcerated people who are there serving time and the ...

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

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

(John Moore/Getty Images) Across the United States, state prison systems are grappling with chronic understaffing and ...

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

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

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