Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced limits on how long offenders can be returned to prison, under plans to ease ...

In the EU, 13 member states reported overcrowded prison cells. Poland, Hungary, and Czechia have the highest prisoner rates ...

MEN’S prisons are set to run out of space in just five months time with the justice system in chaos – sparking a new jail ...

With accounts of overcrowded cells, filth-choked showers, and a kitchen sink that drained directly onto the floor, a new ...

More than a thousand inmates will be released early to free up spaces in prisons in England and Wales, the justice secretary has announced, as the government grapples with an overcrowding crisis.

Three new prisons will be built and new recall measures will be introduced in a bid to manage the jail population ...

Reports on Wednesday have suggested the upcoming sentencing review, led by former justice secretary David Gauke, will propose ...

Emergency measures are set to be introduced before overcrowded UK prisons reach 'zero capacity', it has been announced. The ...

Mumbai: Citing his long incarceration pending trial of more than 5 years and 4 months, and the complainant being untraceable, rendering the commenceme.

BAGHDAD — As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country's prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing ...

The Supreme Court has instructed the Rajasthan government not to alter the layout of an open-air prison in Jaipur. This move ...