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 of ...

The government plans to further expand the use of parole starting next year to address overcrowding at correctional ...

Five bunk beds sit vacant in the sleeping quarters of an empty inmate pod at the Burleigh/Morton County Detention Center on ...

a help wanted sign outside of Raleigh's Central Prison Outside Raleigh's Central Prison a banner offers open interviews to would-be job seekers. The vacancy rate of North Carolina’s corrections ...

An unannounced inspection at HMP Doncaster identified a number of problems – including drugs, overcrowding, and a lack of ...

Shared cells in an overcrowded South Yorkshire prison are "often too small to maintain decency and privacy", inspectors have reported. HMP Doncaster, which houses young adults and men, held 1,115 ...

People who are incarcerated can incur charges for court proceedings, restitution, parole and a variety of services. In ...

ROME (Reuters) -Italy may release up to around 10,000 people from prison, or about 15% of the total population of inmates, to ease overcrowding, the Justice Ministry has announced. Some 10,105 ...

It is the first time any part of the criminal justice system has been privatised. It follows similar developments in other ...

The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians‘ attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government review has found. The Independent Sentencing Review report is a stark break ...

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