When elected last July, prisons were at the top of the new government’s priorities. At his first press conference as Prime ...

A sharp escalation in prison overcrowding is creating a “breeding ground for violence” and poses a “very high-risk situation” ...

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.

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

Hundreds of people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration are being kept at an overcrowded detention center in Miami, sleeping on cement floors amid the stench of body odor ...

What you could see was overcrowded cells, people sleeping on mattresses. Prison officers warned us of heightened tension when the weather gets warmer. There were clear sanitation issues, lights, ...

The U.S. has sent hundreds of people to the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT. William Brangham discussed ...

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.

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 ...

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.