State and local officials held a press conference on Monday to address the findings of a recent report on the conditions at ...

The increasing number of elderly women in Japanese prisons highlights broader social challenges, including poverty and ...

A crowd rallies outside of the bell tower at Virginia’s Capitol on Jan. 8, 2025 to protest allegations of mistreatment of ...

As the 69th Legislative Assembly begins its work this week, one of the issues it will be facing involves overcrowding at the ...

The administrator of the County Correctional Center believes that rather than leasing the jail's soon-to-open expanded space to the state, contracts to hold federal and state inmates could pay for the ...

A prison nurse who helped inmates smuggle in mobile phones for drug dealing has avoided jail because her family 'needs her ... Allen, 33, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to two counts ...

Overcrowding, no doubt, stands out as the most pressing challenge of the NCoS. While engaging State Chief Executives to ...

The Acting Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Sylvester Nwakuche, has revealed that 48,932 ...

The ACLU of Rhode Island touted the policy changes on Wednesday, praising a decision by the department to revise the rules, ...

During her address, Gov. Sanders reaffirmed her support of a State Prison in Franklin County. Some state lawmakers are ...

Roughly two months after Virginia’s Department of Corrections confirmed that six inmates at Red Onion State Prison had burned ...

Inmate Matthew J. Schweichler, 38, is mentally ill, mentally disabled and violent. He is on his way to new placement after aunt and courts intervene.