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 ...

Kerala prisons are overcrowded, violating inmates' basic human rights. RJD demands immediate government intervention and ...

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 ...

Yet the Office of the Inspector of Prisons (OIP) Annual Report 2023 is clear that due to the significant levels of overcrowding right across our prison estate, the Irish Prison Service is unable ...

The UK government is looking to Estelle prison for ideas - for ways to reduce reoffending and to bring down prisoner numbers ...

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 ...