Prisoners will be temporarily held in police cells to deal with prisons running out of space, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) ...

A majority of Senate Republicans initially sank the bill on a 16-16 vote, but after nearly two hours of uncertainty, the bill ...

West Mercia's police stations are ready to hold prisoners to help ease overcrowding if needed, according to the region's ...

Prison crisis measures triggered as jails full just six months after thousands of offenders released early - The measure comes despite thousands of offenders being released early in September, under a ...

The British government announced that police cells will be temporarily used to hold prisoners as a temporary measure to combat prison ...

"This Government seems determined to release prisoners willy-nilly at a time the prison service is on its knees," ex-prison ...

A study by the Howard League for Prison Reform shows that there are now more people behind bars than there were when the ...

As a result of the ongoing mass arrests, El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The proportion of its population that El Salvador incarcerates is more than triple that of the ...

President Prabowo Subianto's plan to build a prison on a remote island for corrupt individuals could improve Indonesia's ...

The number of prisoners in England and Wales has reached a six-month high, despite thousands of inmates being released early ...

Mozambique's prime minister on Monday asked the newly appointed director-general of the National Prison Service (SERNAP) to act to reduce overcrowding in prisons and to humanise the services, in ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) — Grand Forks County Commission has approved a letter of intent to help relieve overcrowding at North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Unused space in ...