Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask. Inspector General of the ...

The Alabama Sentencing Commission said Friday that Alabama’s already overcrowded prisons could see inmate populations rise by ...

Too many inmates are living in crowded conditions at a prison, inspectors have said. Inspectors, who visited HMP Hewell in Worcestershire in June, said new prisoners were not given work, training or ...

The Alabama Sentencing Commission said Friday that Alabama’s already overcrowded prisons could see inmate populations rise by nearly a third by 2030 due to new punitive laws passed by the Legislature.

Legislators in a special session on Tuesday night narrowly passed a bill to spend $650 million to build a 1,500-bed men’s ...

Shelby County Sheriff's Office transferred over 100 inmates to Tennessee state prisons to alleviate local jail overcrowding.

Hundreds of prisoners are set to be released early in the latest bid to tackle prison overcrowding. Angela Constance, Justice ...

Broken lifts, showers, boilers, cell call bells, damaged floors and "shabby wings" were reported, as well as the poor state ...

Some of the inmates at the Worcester Correctional Centre's male facility in the Western Cape are sleeping underneath their beds and on pass ...

Ten of Scotland's prisons are at 'red risk status' and ten are 'on or over their assessed capacity tolerance'.