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

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

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

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

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

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

The UK government announced plans on Wednesday to build four new prisons by 2031 to ease an overcrowding crisis, which ...

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

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

Across the United States, state prison systems are grappling with chronic understaffing and overcrowding — dual crises that ...

South Africa's prisons are severely overcrowded, causing inhumane conditions for prisoners, which also impacts prison officials and society at large. Overcrowding is driven by a rising number of ...