It does sound like our initial denial got some traction,” budget committee chair Rep. Emily Sirota said. “But we’ve not seen ...

Punjab's prisons are bursting at the seams, and the consequences are no longer confined to administrative discomfort. With ...

TUTWILER, MISSISSIPPI — The cotton is just beginning to bloom. It’s late August in the Mississippi Delta, an alluvial plain formed by soil deposited from the Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi rivers over ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask. Inspector General of the Nebraska Correctional System Doug ...

The Montana State Prison is at the end of a long and winding road in Deer Lodge. It’s in the middle of nowhere, past the town ...

A report finds cells being shared were often "too small to maintain decency and privacy" at HMP Doncaster [BBC] Shared cells in an overcrowded South Yorkshire prison are "often too small to maintain ...

With conditions an ‘affront to human dignity’, inspector of prisons to tell Oireachtas committee State cannot build its way out of problem ...

This is Room 6, inmate number 000. My head has been hurting since yesterday. Could you check my blood pressure?” “…Please ...

Colorado’s prison system is facing a critical capacity issue, with only 161 funded general population beds remaining and a ...

With jails' occupancy exceeding their capacity, prisoners are forced to live in unhygienic and suffocating conditions ...