The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) Prison guards stand outside holding cells during a media tour of the Terrorism Confinement ...

Ian Acheson, John Podmore, and Professor David Wilson state that it is getting like South America in some places, with Organised Crime Groups (OCGs) in control. They write: “Sadly, we would go further ...

A man has escaped a South Coast prison early Wednesday morning. Reporting to you from Wollongong these days, I've come to the big smoke via the bustling metropolis of Sydney, rolling hills of ...

A man has escaped a South Coast prison early Wednesday morning. Reporting to you from Wollongong these days, I've come to the big smoke via the bustling metropolis of Sydney, rolling hills of Bendigo, ...

The law change in Scotland replicates a change made south of the border by the UK ... sustained reduction of about 5% to the sentenced prison population. According to the latest figures, there ...

Biden's executive order issued in Jan. 2021 directed the U.S. Department of Justice to phase-out its contracts with private prison companies, excluding ICE detention, says the American Civil ...

The latest numbers won’t be available until spring, but the count came as recent national figures show homelessness rates have hit an all-time high.

He remembers it as easy money: “There were a lot of people who wanted drugs in East Oakland and South ... prison population fell by only 12 percent.) Prison is deeply rooted in the American ...

President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half ...

South Korean Pres. Yoon Suk-Yeol, 2023. ‘Korea’s likely next government, probably run by the opposition, may well follow policies that will find Seoul at odds with Washington.’ one analyst tells the ...