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

The Chief Inspector of Prisons has said that he has "grave concerns" about "degrading conditions" in Cloverhill Prison while ...

The Chief Inspector of Prisons has described the overcrowded conditions for prisoners as inhuman, degrading, an affront to ...

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 ...

When discussing the largest prisons in the world, size can mean two things: total inmate population or overall capacity. Many of the biggest facilities are actually sprawling complexes that contain ...

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

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 ...

New policy in Marion County Jail limits ICE detainee hold time to 48 hours, addressing overcrowding and budget constraints.

ROME — Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event ...

A cell of just nine square metres with no toilet can hold up to three prisoners. Sometimes, one of them has to sleep on the floor due to a lack of space. This is common in Belgium, a country that has ...

Chief Inspector of Prisons Mark Kelly said that although it is a judicial matter to determine, the conditions in Irish ...