Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...

Nearly 1 in 6 Oklahoma prisoners is 55 or older, a demographic that has doubled since 2009 and almost quadrupled since 2000.

While the Bay State can boast the lowest incarceration rate among the 50 states, it spends more than twice per prisoner as ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood backs sentencing tsar David Gauke's plan for shorter sentences to solve jail overcrowding ...

Unwise and unsafe,” DOC Commissioner Tom Schnell said about a bill to ban solitary confinement in Minnesota’s jails and ...

A record number of prisons are overcrowded despite emergency release schemes freeing hundreds of prisoners early.

The bill, which earlier this month was approved by the Assembly largely along party lines but is awaiting a committee hearing in the Senate, could increase the prison population by nearly 7,000 ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...

The number of offenders behind bars soared to a six-month high despite Labour's controversial decision to release thousands ...

El Salvador has the highest prison population rate in the world. The US administration intends to increase the number of ...

Drugs are "too easily available" at a prison where almost 40% of drug tests came back positive, a watchdog has warned. HMP ...

To do that, Mueller is naming a federal “receiver-nominee” to develop an oversight plan for psychiatric services for California’s prison population. Three prior candidates, for varying ...