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

The prison guards’ union (Pasydy branch) on Wednesday refuted accusations after inmates in an open letter to President Nikos Christodoulides, decried the “deplorable” conditions in the ...

In December of 2020 the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against what it called Alabama's unconstitutional conditions in state prisons for men. A new federal scheduling order out this week ...

San Quentin Prison, dating to 1852, was California’s first state lockup. But it might not have been built if Gen. Mariano ...

A guard employed at the facility told AFP conditions inside were "indescribable". Prisoners are also all too frequently victims of violence. At a prison in Trapani, in Sicily, 11 officers have ...

By performing hard labor, the theory went, prisoners would, as one historian describes, submit “to the hard, Christian labor ...

A United Nations gangster who was part of the 2011 Kelowna murder plot that left Red Scorpion Jonathan Bacon dead will have to obey special conditions in the community for his upcoming prison release.

Inmates of the jail where Luigi Mangione is being held without bail have used a live television report to claim the murder ...

State officials have since taken steps to address prison conditions, but the extreme duration of solitary confinement in Muhammad’s case shows those efforts falling short, Regan said.

recommending extensive measures to improve prison conditions and administration. Yet, in typical Indian policy fashion, no substantial improvements followed. In 1996, a Bengaluru’s Central Jail ...

A pattern of deliberate malfeasance – gross neglect of unsafe conditions, or excessive internal punishment within the jail system – by prison authorities must be present to trigger 8th ...