North Carolina is two years into a three-year project to install air conditioning across the prison system. Here’s what ...

A Pitt law professor shares insights from teaching incarcerated individuals at SCI-Greene, highlighting education’s role in creating change.

The most prisoners which it can hold without a serious risk to safety is 327, according to authorities. The watchdog found ...

Criminals have used drones to deliver drugs through hole-ridden perspex windows on prisoners’ cells, a watchdog has revealed.

The report by an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), made up of volunteers tasked by ministers with scrutinising conditions ...

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There was a 31 per cent increase in assaults on both staff and other prisoners between February last year and and the end of ...

He was due to be released from the Walton prison in two weeks when he was found hanging in his cell on February 19 2018. He ...

A schizophrenic prisoner was kept in an almost black cell with broken windows - and hadn’t seen his mental health worker in ...

Violence remained “excessively high” across the prison estate last year driven by overcrowding, inadequate mental health ...