According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Ethiopia’s prison population exceeds 120,000, or about 99 per ...

The Department of Justice was warned that a crackdown on undocumented immigrants would lead to serious high-risk criminals ...

The number of suicides among prisoners in France is steadily increasing, while overcrowding of prisons is soaring. Often, the ...

Sri Lankan prisons are severely overcrowded, with the majority of inmates being non-convicted individuals held on suspicion, ...

Social Democrats TD Gary Ganon has now raised concerns about more people being added to overcrowded prisons and the ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. DORSET prisons are overcrowded, according to latest figures, and short jail terms are set to be scrapped to fix the national issue.

South Dakota is on a path to invest $2 billion into its corrections facilities in the next decade as a result of its ...

Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system aimed at freeing up more space in its overcrowded prisons. One of the ...

Imagine growing up in confinement with suppressed murmurs of forgotten men and women—an unsanitary place where freedom of ...