A union representing Michigan corrections officers is sounding alarms over an increase in violent assaults against prison ...

State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, according to a government-funded ...

Recently, a student asked for my assistance in guidance to produce an essay on the “economics of incarceration” in the United ...

Bangladesh's exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and her niece, the British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to four years in connection with two cases involving ...

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the death of an inmate at the Bath Institution, west of Kingston. Investigators say a 49-year-old inmate was located in medical distress in his cell just ...

The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in ...

More than 30 people in Venezuela considered to be "political prisoners" were released on Sunday, legal rights group Foro ...

El Salvador-style crackdown and mega-prison not the answer to organised crime and violence in his country, says interior minister ...

Now Maduro sits in an American prison, and Venezuela is governed by his erstwhile second-in-command, Delcy Rodríguez, under a ...

In a cell where light barely seeps in, Mahmoud, along with “Islamist prisoners” in Building B of Roumieh Prison, made a decision the harsh consequences of which they fully understood in advance: ...

In September 2025, Nepal witnessed large-scale anti-government protests led by Gen Z youth, during which the prison premises ...

The story of why Kundan Krishnan, the Superintendent of Police of Bihar’s Saran district in 2002, his bodyguard Jitendra ...