The Gauke report tells us how to reform British prisons – now, it’s up to politicians to make it happen - THE INDEPENDENT ...

The British government is to rollout the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package ...

In a bid to lower overcrowding in prisons, the British government is considering whether to make chemical castration ...

The British government said criminals could earn earlier release under a new program to cut the prison population, citing ...

Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system ...

Sullivan, 68, was convicted in 1987 of killing Diane Sindall in Bebington, near Liverpool in northwest England. He spent 38 ...

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic understaffing has led to long overtime shifts and the use of prison nurses ...

Violence, self-harm and drugs availability are rising at Britain’s biggest public sector prison, a report found. Positive progress at HMP Berwyn, Wrexham, was being affected by an influx of ...

A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious ...

Concrete is crumbling, and the old rec yard is caked in seagull guano. This is no longer a fearsome prison. Not a working one, anyway. Alcatraz the penitentiary shut down in 1963, but Alcatraz the ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco ...