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

One of the holding cells in the booking area of the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Aug. 27, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger With Vermont’s prisons reaching ...

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

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

The SNP has been accused of a “shameful betrayal of victims” after announcing 800 more prisoners are to be released early ...

For decades, the Italian far right has made “Law and order” a rallying cry. Now one of their own is imprisoned, writing about ...

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.

The repurposed Forest prison in Brussels has opened its doors to the public to highlight the difficulties facing the prison system in Belgium, as overcrowding threatens inmates’ safety and hinders ...

FRAUDSTERS, drug dealers, and thieves are among the prisoners most likely to be granted temporary release from Irish jails.

Prisons had existed in the Indian subcontinent since the third century BC, but they were mainly used to confine political ...