International broadcast journalist tells graduating students that “sometime, somewhere, each and every one of you will be ...

As we move further away from the life of Nelson Mandela, it is too easy to start remembering him in familiar sound-bites - to reduce the image of Madiba in our minds to a handful of quotes and ...

As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

Image: Sophy Ridge talking to one of the officers who works within Preston Prison The £18bn spectre of reoffending We know the stats about reoffending, but it floored me how the system is failing.

Nebraska lawmakers took steps Friday to limit the state prison system's reliance on inconclusive field tests to discipline incarcerated people suspected of harboring drugs a year after the ...

the federal government has made good on its pledge to move some of California’s allegedly most dangerous inmates into the federal prison system. Related Articles Man arrested on suspicion of ...

Brooks, who died after being severely beaten by correction officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in December, could spur an overhaul of the state’s prison system by the state Legislature.

Top Georgia lawmakers acknowledged during this year’s legislative session that costly steps were needed to deal with a prison system operating in crisis mode, and they acted accordingly.

"The last time I celebrated like this was when Mandela was released from prison," she said as she danced with a crowd dressed in green, yellow and black - the ANC's signature colours. In the Sakhumzi ...

The news comes despite the implementation of Proposition 36, a new California law that is predicted to temporarily increase the number of people in the prison system. California governor outlines ...

Here’s a quick snapshot of what the BJS found in their study of 50 states and the federal prison system. On Dec. 31, 2023, there were over 300 pregnant women in the 49 jurisdictions that provided data ...

The review also proposed a system where offenders can earn earlier release through good behaviour and compliance with prison rules, and said custodial sentences of less than a year should only be ...