Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded ...

An over-reliance on a “tough on crime” approach is worsening the prison overcrowding crisis, Labour’s sentencing tsar has ...

They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to ...

Gov. Tony Evers’ newest plan for Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections system proposes closing the Green Bay Correctional ...

A long-running crisis of overstuffed jails and backlogged courts has reached a critical level.View on euronews ...

Santo Domingo.- Thousands of inmates in the Dominican Republic endure extreme overcrowding, with many sleeping on floors near unsanitary conditions. Over 60% of the country’s 26,000 prisoners are held ...

UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tsar finds - David Gauke, former Conservative ...

Urgent reform is needed to avoid another prison overcrowding crisis as rising numbers of people being recalled to prison is “trapping” them in the criminal justice system, a new report has warned.

Kudos to University of Guam students who have come up with viable recommendations on how to help solve the island’s decades-long prison overcrowding, most notably moving the nearly 70 adult ...

Tackling prison overcrowding by the early release of inmates is being put ahead of victims' and public safety, a charity has said. Up to 390 prisoners sentenced to less than four years in jail are ...

research and analyses in hopes of helping to alleviate overcrowding at the Department of Corrections. They presented their findings on Thursday, Jan. 16, at the UOG College of Business and Public ...