El Salvador has the highest prison population rate in the world. The US administration intends to increase the number of ...

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

The Montana Department of Corrections is looking at four different locations for a new women's prison, due to the current one ...

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

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

The number of people in prison in England and Wales has soared to a six month high, with more inmates behind bars than before ...

The justice sector will be able to improve the management of the prison population with the start of construction of ten penitentiaries this year, with a view to reducing the overcrowding that ...

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) will introduce a parole system in June this year, marking a major shift ...

Prison overcrowding is at another crisis point with all secure jails having reached, or exceeded, capacity for the first time. More than 100 prisoners were sleeping on the floors of Mountjoy on ...

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

The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians‘ attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government review has found. The Independent Sentencing Review report is a ...