Many prisoner are living in ‘inhumane conditions’ and the government must act now to avert disaster, the Public Accounts ...

A Westminster committee said lives are being increasingly put at risk by the Government’s historic failures to increase ...

The crisis followed the last Conservative Government's failure to fulfil its promise to build up to 20,000 more prisons ...

Prisons are set to overflow once again in 2026 despite thousands of convicts being released early, a new report has found, ...

MPs have warned the prison service is operating 'hand to mouth' as it scrambles from one crisis to another - with jails set ...

More than 50 inmates in an Indonesian prison staged an escape as officers scrambled to stop them. Video showed the prisoners ...

At least 52 inmates escaped from an overcrowded prison in the westernmost Aceh province of Indonesia after breaking through ...

Prisons are out of control with violence increasing and drug use rampant, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been warned.

Ultimately, the men were released, including at least two illegally detained New Jersey men from deplorable conditions in a Haitian prison. Here is our coverage of the matter. Originally published ...

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) will introduce a parole system in June this year, marking a major shift ...