Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said 'we simply cannot build our way out of the prisons capacity crisis' adding it must 'go alongside longer-term sentencing reform' ...

Demonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign ...

At least 12 inmates have escaped from the Federal Correctional Centre, Kotonkarfe, Kogi State.The incident happened in the early hours of Monday.In a statement, the State Commissioner for Information ...

A Step Toward Safety and Security** In an unprecedented move reflecting a growing concern for the safety of women, a California lawmaker has introduced legislation aimed at keeping biological males ...

A new program at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center — the first of its kind — is preparing women for success beyond incarceration.

The Legal Aid Society released a report Friday, detailing the ongoing and immense damage inflicted upon incarcerated New ...

Unwise and unsafe,” DOC Commissioner Tom Schnell said about a bill to ban solitary confinement in Minnesota’s jails and ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

Jose Santos Pardo, 25, of Homestead, has pleaded guilty to possession of contraband by a federal inmate, Acting United States ...

Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

A bill to give long-serving Maryland inmates a chance for early release from prison is one step closer to passing.