The Colorado Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to strengthen a 2018 law meant to speed up the release of eligible people ...

Eleven prisoners have died while ministers drag their heels over legally required fire safety measures in overcrowded British ...

Eric Kania, MD, who has been a psychiatrist at Baumettes Prison in Marseille, France, for 25 years, has witnessed an increasing proportion of inmates being treated for psychiatric disorders. In an ...

A fortnight into her new job as governor of an overcrowded, understaffed jail, Sharanne Findlay faced what she described as the worst week of her career. Angry prisoners at HMP Glenochil in ...

Colorado’s prison population plan was designed to prevent overcrowding. Instead, eight months after it was triggered, the ...

The prison inspector has expressed grave concern at a 55% increase in deaths in the country’s jails in 2024 — and pointed to the worsening overcrowding crisis and mental health pressures as factors.

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INDIANAPOLIS–Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police President Rick Snyder is responding to Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal’s claims of overcrowding involving ICE detainees. Forestal said Monday ...

A Catholic prison official in South Korea has expressed alarm over severe overcrowding and inadequate health care in the country’s prisons, warning that systemic shortcomings are worsening conditions ...

In Campania, historically one of the leading regions for achievements from art to gastronomy, sports to cinema, another ...

Sharanne Findlay experienced the worst week of her career soon after taking over as governor of Glenochil [BBC] A fortnight into her new job as governor of an overcrowded, understaffed jail, Sharanne ...