Shabana Mahmood says she will publish a ‘realistic’ plan later this week that will lead to 14,000 extra places being built.

Visitors to Victorian prisons were caught trying to smuggle in thousands of cigarettes this year while the prisoners themselves got creative to get around the smoking ban. Corrections Victoria ...

A convicted murderer who stabbed a mother-of-three to death over $50 has been granted release from a Victorian prison to ...

But in accusing the prison of violating the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, the DOJ has raised the stakes of the battle, invoking Constitutional safeguards that are ...

A decision is needed urgently on the future of radon-hit Dartmoor Prison, a damning report by the jail's monitoring board says. The decaying Victorian prison is currently sitting empty with a ...

Yesterday (11 December 2024) the Ministry of Justice published its 10-year prison capacity strategy in which it says it will ...

“It should be a punishment. You shouldn’t be able to escape for a better position in prison, which I think would probably be ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution stands in Dublin, Calif., Dec. 5, 2022. The federal Bureau of ...

The Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act is a response ... on prison guards by inmates in federal prisons, an analysis of the punishments doled out, and then another 180 days to turn over a report ...

Inside the high fences and barbed wire are sixteen austere red-brick Victorian houses ... often changing the family's life' Prison is supposed to be part punishment, part repair job.

The Government has announced that Dartmoor Prison – a staple of the Moor since 1809 – will close. Lucy Fraser, the Minister of Prisons, had said that Victorian-era prisons were needed when she ...