It is understood that contingency plans have been drawn up in prisons for scenarios where control is lost in a jail or part ...

The Salvadoran prison, where Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held, keeps inmates tightly confined with little ...

The prisons in England and Wales are almost completely full with very few available cells left.As per Sky News, there are ...

Numerous other methods are being tried to prevent prison overcrowding, with the government revealing plans to use an emergency measure so that cells in police stations could be used to house inmates.

A new £400 million super-prison has opened where inmates will be able to choose the names of their cell blocks and get a say in how it is run.

An "overcrowded" prison where violence is on the rise needs ... with prisoners sharing a cell in wings that were built more than 200 years ago for one person. It added there was "no privacy ...

El Salvador's CECOT prison, where over 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members deported from the U.S. are being held, has been criticized for alleged human rights violations.

The male estate is almost full again, operating at more than 99% capacity, with emergency measures triggered to hold offenders in police cells ... overcrowding. But there are concerns among open ...

Barlinnie’s Governor Michael Stoney admitted that chronic overcrowding is causing ... with proper time out of cells. The new prison is already years late and massively over budget.

INMATES are getting drugs, weapons and phones delivered by drone to their cell windows. And prison officers are ­fearful that a GUN will now be dropped in behind bars. With the overcrowding ...

Inmates sit in a treatment dorm at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, around the time of ...