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

Lawmakers rejected a request to add hundreds of new prison beds, saying the state must first address staffing shortages and parole backlogs.

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

A slew of reports from the Office of the Inspector of Prisons was published late last week. They exert a powerful cumulative ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In India, four out of five prisoners are undertrials; confined not by conviction, but by the sluggish machinery of justice ...

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