People guilty of rape, serious child sex and grooming offences will be excluded from an early release scheme in England and ...

In an unusual move, prisoners are being compensated with gratuity payments for sleeping on mattresses on the floor of ...

Prison Occupancy Rates in Meghalaya File image of Shillong District Jail. (Photo: Sourav Nath/Gmaps) New Delhi, Aug 5: ...

Why are criminals being released early? The prison crisis in numbers - PRISON CRISIS: Around 1,000 rapists and child sex offenders will remain exempt from Labour’s early prison release scheme - but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Sen. Mike Weissman, seen at a press conference at the Colorado Capitol in February, is sponsoring a bill that could help ...

ROME (AP) — 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 ...

There has been a large rise in the number of offenders being recalled to prisons in England and Wales.

Overcrowding in jails was so severe, the Irish Prison Service planned hostage-negotiation training and considered using ...

The Green Party has called for the government to look at ‘alternatives to incarceration’ in order to solver the prison crisis.

The most practical is to first focus on remand prisoners who amount to around 70 percent of the total. Just in Colombo, New ...

Sri Lanka, Aug. 4 -- The Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on Governance, Justice and Civil Protection held extensive discussions on formulating a systematic programme to reduce prison overcrowding ...

Prison overcrowding across Korea remains unresolved, with correctional facilities operating at an average 126.4 percent of ...