A staggering number of people in Wisconsin prisons have mental illnesses and committed non-violent crimes. A new bill could ...

The North Bay and District Jail is “severely” overcrowded with three inmates to a cell, frequent facility lockdowns and high ...

Authorities reveal how girl, 5, fell overboard from Disney Dream cruise ship before dad jumped in to save her 160 People ...

When Flathead County Justice of Peace Eric Hummel decides whether an individual charged with a crime will be held in the ...

The closure of the country's main prison for housing sex offenders has been recommended as a top priority by a group ...

Indonesia's Ministry of Immigration and Corrections has announced that a new correctional facility that could house up to ...

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with ...

A recruitment campaign is under way to hire 300 new prison officers in full-time positions. The new officers will help ...

Scotland’s Independent Prison Monitor (IPM) teams have published their annual reports on every jail in the country.  There ...

Rome’s sweeping new security decree looks set to put more people behind bars, but overcrowded prisons can’t cope.

Signs of squalor are everywhere: inmates sleeping on floors, rotting food, piles of trash, inoperable toilets, broken pipes, ...