Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

The prison population ... Eighty-three women are in custody there, but the jail has just 56 beds. The male prison is also overcrowded - 28% over capacity - meaning 398 men are in custody, but ...

While I have a writing career to push back on the show’s nasty narrative, so many other incarcerated people have no recourse ...

The prison is actively seeking to address this imbalance, aiming to recruit 35 more male officers and 15 female officers to better reflect the predominantly male inmate population. The facility ...

There are fewer than 1,000 spare prison cells across England and ... There are just 551 empty places in men's prisons, and 261 in women's prisons across England and Wales, as of 14 April.

There are fewer than 1,000 spare prison cells across England and Wales ... There are just 551 empty places in men's prisons, and 261 in women's prisons across England and Wales, as of 14 April. Within ...

and their population has grown at twice the rate of men since 1980. Today, there are about 200,000 women behind bars, amounting to nearly the total U.S. prison population of the early ’70s.

Some immigrant detention centers across the country are over capacity. The administration has asked for emergency contracts ...

Caring for a rapidly aging prison population is a growing problem across ... The state created two of its own memory care units in men’s prisons, a 30-bed unit in the California Health Care ...

“We have concerns that they cannot meet the needs of the population ... nursing care for women with life-limiting illnesses including dementia. Yet Norman fears the in-prison facilities are ...

Despite their "unique needs, criminal justice policy has largely overlooked incarcerated women, partly because they are significantly outnumbered by men in the prison system," say Heather Rice ...

Problems with overcrowding have enveloped the Green Hill School juvenile detention center in Chehalis for nearly two years, ...