The UN’s top expert on torture on Thursday criticised overcrowding in Senegal’s prisons, warning that it could spark violence at any moment or lead to the spread of disease. Alice Jill Edwards, the ...

Michael Stoney said new early release laws were necessary for staff and inmates at Barlinnie prison in Glasgow ...

Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated ...

The governor of Scotland’s largest prison has claimed the overcrowding is like a “pressure cooker”, as new laws to release hundreds of inmates early comes into force. Michael Stoney, governor of HMP ...

Following a trend seen nationwide, animal shelters in New Jersey continue to battle an issue of overcrowding. Experts can't ...

El Salvador has an obligation to accept its own citizens deported from the United States, but Bukele goes too far in offering its overcrowded prisons to house citizens from other nations.

The committee, which comprises additional chief secretaries of the finance and home departments, A. Jayathilak and Subrata ...

Michael Stoney said Barlinnie was the "insurance policy" for overcrowded prisons The governor of Barlinnie says he would "struggle" to survive life inside his own overcrowded prison. Michael ...