Tennessee bill to penalize CoreCivic for death rate advances in Senate
Though state officials have resisted new accountability measures for CoreCivic, the legislation has received bipartisan ...
How Oklahoma's aging prison population is stretching the state's corrections budget
Rising prison health care costs are prompting corrections officials to rethink everything from medication distribution to ...
Prison population climbs to six-month high despite early-release scheme
The number of prisoners in England and Wales has reached a six-month high, despite thousands of inmates being released early ...
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World's largest women's prison launches independent newspaper by and for inmates
It’s the largest women’s prison in the state — and the world. But that is not the only thing the Central California Women’s ...
Abolished indefinite prison sentences still in place - despite prisoner numbers approaching pre-release scheme levels
Imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences were introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012. But the law wasn't ...
Drugs too easily available at prison, watchdog warns
Drugs are "too easily available" at a prison where almost 40% of drug tests came back positive, a watchdog has warned. HMP ...
What we know about the El Salvador ‘mega prison’ where Trump is sending alleged Venezuelan gang members
El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of ...
Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison
El Salvador has the highest prison population rate in the world. The US administration intends to increase the number of ...
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Surge in Algerian inmate population reported in French prisons
Algerians represent the largest foreign inmate population in French prisons, outnumbering Moroccans two to one and Tunisians ...
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Texas lawmakers are pushing harsher criminal penalties while prison and jail populations soar
However, critics argue that these measures could strain the state's already overwrought prisons and jails, and that the state's prison population is projected to increase by about 10% over the next ...
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Data shows the NT's prison population has surged to a new high
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the Northern Territory’s prison population is at a record high, having jumped 7 per cent in the last quarter of 2024. The number of ...
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Prison population climbs to six-month high despite early-release scheme
The prison population stood at 87,556 as of Monday, according to new data published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). This is the highest weekly figure since the population climbed to a record ...