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

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

The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) remains operating 'hand to mouth', while the service acknowledges it as ...

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

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

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

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

Minister of Immigration and Corrections, Agus Andrianto, has said that his ministry will address the problem of prison ...

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 ...

At least 52 inmates escaped from an overcrowded prison in the westernmost Aceh province of Indonesia after breaking through the main facility doors. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

An illegal strike by state correction officers was resolved, but its ripple effects are creating more dangerous conditions at ...

South Korea’s correctional facilities, including detention centers and prisons, are becoming overcrowded. A surge in drug ...