There are a handful of correctional facilities across the globe where inmates live in prisons likened to deluxe hotels and ...

In response to political and fiscal pressures, and with crime rates well below their 1990s peak, jails and prisons are ...

Countries around the world, periodically ... 1,100 prisoners as part of its emergency plan to ease congestion in prisons across England and Wales in October. The United States has the highest ...

In a world-first programme which is to be introduced across Scotland, a selection of inmates at HMP Barlinnie Prison were ...

But on weekends, they return to Matsuyama Prison where they are incarcerated ... Consequently, the gap between inmates and the outside world becomes a barrier when they are released, driving ...

Vermin infestations are an “acute issue” across the prison estate, and prisoners have been bitten by rats and venomous spiders. She says: “Decades of underinvestment in the fabric of the ...

Venezuela’s government has released some of the thousands of people who were detained during and after deadly protests that ...

Cuttack: The Orissa high court has initiated suo motu proceedings to examine the possibility of establishing more open prisons across the state, expanding beyond the existing Biju Patnaik open air ...

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