Sex offenders make up a significant percentage of the prison population in England, and at the end of March, more than 20% of inmates were incarcerated on sex crimes charges.

If potential prisons-for-tariffs pitch fails, Europe could point Trump to the criminal justice system in the Netherlands where the prison population shrank from 94 per 100,00 citizens to 51 ...

The Council of Europe's annual report on incarceration statistics based on the 2022 census has been published. Marcelo Aebi, lead researcher of the team that prepared the report, said that the prison ...

Mississippi saw the biggest spike in its prison population, with numbers swelling by 14.3 percent. In 2022, the state incarcerated 2,470 more people than it did in 2021—19,802 compared to 17,332.

The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.

BACKGROUND Although prison inmates are known to be disadvantaged in multiple ways, we know less about changes in the socioeconomic backgrounds of prisoners over time. We examine these changes in a ...