Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

The Texas Legislature should pass House Bill 3005 to begin the process for installing air conditioning in state prisons — a ...

Counties are jailing mental health patients they’re not equipped to handle when the Montana State Hospital is at capacity.

After 12 years, the class action lawsuit over living conditions at Stateville Correctional Center that helped bring the ...

House Bills 4255 and 4256, if adopted into law, would increase prison terms for individuals convicted of manufacturing, distributing or possessing fentanyl with intent to deliver. "Every life lost ...

Injured inmates at Holme House have received compensation payouts ... "By addressing this crisis, we can begin the work of improving prison conditions to reduce the need for compensation claims ...

A 22-year-old thief named for the late John F. Kennedy has caused an uproar in Peru by escaping from prison, shouting out thanks to God as he dashed to freedom, according to video footage that has ...

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami plans to move up to 400 immigrant detainees into a large tent that ...

The dispute highlights past issues at the prison, including understaffing and ... In 2021, the American Civil Liberties Union urged the White House to close the facility, which was later achieved ...

The data was published a day after prison officer union officials met Shabana ... This was followed by HMP Styal in Wilmslow, Cheshire (864) and Bedford (841). HMP Wandsworth saw the highest ...