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

While there were 5,101 people in prisons across the country on February 6, there were 11 per cent fewer beds (546) ...

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

State’s advocate Savita Yadav strongly opposed bail citing Shaikh’s 20 criminal antecedents and the risk of witness ...

President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a ...

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

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

Prisoners will be shifted from overcrowded prisons to under-crowded prisons. A suitable site will also be found between Viyyur and Thiruvananthapuram for setting up a new central jail, he said ...

The proposed legislation is the result of a resolution that forced the state to study ways to improve reentry programs for ...

I know it’s a prison and all." Governor David Tracey, who had told the prisoner to be honest, didn’t hold back himself. “We are in a crisis here, with overcrowding. And it’s not just ...

The Northern Territory's booming prison population has reached a new record, growing by more than 470 prisoners since the ...