A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

After a month in office, Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Wednesday laid out a plan he says will address property taxes, overcrowding ...

Prison reform advocates often point to the Nordic countries as examples of "how to do prison right." The low rates of ...

Some 150 criminals serving life sentences have been moved to open prisons since Labour won the election amid an overcrowding ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

The Women's Justice Board will sit inside the Ministry of Justice, with regular round tables and ongoing work.

Overcrowded prisons in England and Wales are at breaking point, with self-harm at record levels. Now, researchers are ...

A recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative indicates that understaffed prisons are a symptom of American mass ...

Paraguay’s penitentiary system remains in a state of emergency for a second year, yet without tackling the root causes, the ...

Sentencing council guidance will tell judges and magistrates to ‘think very carefully’ about non-custodial options ...