Overcrowding in Scotland's jails and pressure on the PM ahead of Labour party conference leads today's front pages.

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country’s main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at ...

Some prisoners released early as part of Labour's efforts to ease overcrowding in jails have not yet been fitted with ...

An uninsured teenage motorcyclist who killed a dog walker avoided jail because of prison overcrowding, a court heard. CJ Fitt ...

Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the jail is now overcrowded and exceeds that limit. Officials are ...

A heated argument broke out on Wednesday between Ben-Gvir and Smotrich concerning the shortage of prison spaces.

Smith says overcrowding in the jail, which sits in downtown Franklinton, has gotten worse in recent years. With 144 beds, the ...

"Today we magistrates are at an all-time low in credibility because we have made mistakes." This was stated by the prosecutor ...

MEXICO CITY -- An attempted prisonbreak early Thursday in Honduras left two inmates dead and three injured, authorities said.

That number can fluctuate, the sheriff said, noting that he considers a population above 90% to be overcrowded and burdensome to jail operations. What led to the jail previously falling out of ...

The County Board of Commissioners agreed Tuesday to provide $135,000 in funding to the County Sheriff's Department to help decrease overcrowding in the jail by having some inmates serve time in the ...

Plans to build 20,000 extra prison spaces to cope with overcrowding have been plunged into doubt following the collapse of a ...