Oklahoma's Department of Corrections has officially ended the use of private prisons by acquiring the Lawton Correctional and ...

A Human Rights Watch report said three Miami detention facilities subject people to inhumane, at times life-threatening, ...

A report by Human Rights Watch on Florida immigration detention facilities said they are overcrowded and filled with unsafe ...

The Irish Prison Service should, the trust argued, have the power to release remand prisoners who have been denied bail by ...

Families told the Joint Prison Oversight Committee on Wednesday that the hope of parole is the best incentive for good ...

The number of inmates in prisons across Punjab, including Lahore, has reached alarming levels, with occupancy rates exceeding ...

The Northern Territory's four Aboriginal land councils have issued a rare joint statement, accusing the NT government of ...

Prison staff responsibilities in the NT are set to be privatised further, with Department of Corrections employees told the ...

Overcrowding, violence — and a mentally-ill female prisoner who 'had not had access to a shower for four days' — among issues ...

The Department of Correctional Services says 40% of the prison population is serving sentences of 15 years or more.

The annual report on penal statistics in prisons by the Council of Europe identified Ireland as one of 15 countries in Europe ...

One month on from deadly Israeli air strikes on a notorious Iranian prison during the war between the two countries, inmates ...