The pen. The clink. The slammer. The joint. The cooler. The nick. The big house. The hoosegow. Whatever you call it, it is the place most of us dread ending up: prison. A central pillar of our modern ...

By Azara Lavia Reappointed Chairman of the Prison Visiting Committee, Bishop Charlesworth Browne, is renewing calls for a ...

Opinion: The reluctance to hold people accountable for lawbreaking is obvious to everyone, and it impacts our society in thousands of ways.

The Tucker Telephone is a notorious example of a modern torture device used in the United States during the 20th century, ...

Two lawmakers are asking officials to consider reopening the Prairie Correctional Facility “as a permanent part of our ...

Penang Prison director Abd Rauf Lang Pasif said the prison was regarded as modern for its time because of its structured and organised administrative system and that it represented a significant shift ...

Right now, however, reform is unavoidable because the system is at breaking point ... I was taken to one room in a pristine modern prison where prisoners were learning rehabilitation skills.

HIGHLAND MSP Edward Mountain spent an evening shadowing police around Inverness and was so shocked by the pressure officers ...