prisons and jails

The rehabilitation of offenders has become a globally adopted practice. However, certain countries such as Australia and the U.S. are struggling to achieve the success of countries like Norway, which ...

Dehli rape suspect Ram Singh, 33, allegedly committed suicide in high-security Tihar prison on Monday. His family is ...

A fight involving 400 inmates at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tuscon on Sunday night left 17 ...

400 inmates were involved in a fight at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tuscon on Sunday night. ...

Obama pardons 17 convicts on Friday, his first use of the presidential clemency power in his second term. ...

An U.N. resolution to abolish capital punishment will be voted on in December. South Sudan’s justice system is ...

California passed a bill Sunday that will give a second chance to those sentenced as youth to life ...

Georgia’s President deployed police to the country’s prisons after videos showing purported beatings and rapes of convicts surfaced, ...

Officials on Rikers Island, the city’s major jail complex, have begun using body scanners to locate weapons that ...

Venezuela said it took control of a prison in the western state of Merida after prisoners rioted for ...

An employer was sentenced to jail time and probation for underpaying his workers, the second time Attorney General ...

Prison closures could add to problems in already overcrowded facilities.

The local Communist Party would pay a bonus of 5,000 yuan (US$790) to encourage the prison to exert ...

Canada is closing two outdated federal prisons but critics worry about the loss of space.

A fire at a prison in Honduras on Wednesday killed at least 272 inmates and left dozens unaccounted ...

After two whistle-blowers accused a Miami clinic of giving kickbacks to doctors for referring patients, the Department of ...

In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois, investigators have uncovered a wealth of problems ...

Both governments have assumed combative stances following the Mexican jail sentence of French woman, Florence Cassez.

The United States said it would not recognize the victory of incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko as legitimate. It ...

Justice Minister Ken Clarke of Britain is planning to drastically change the prison system. By reducing the number ...

Better World Books, Prison Book Program, and City Mission Society collaborate for book drive benefit.

Former New York Giants player Clyde “Peter” Hall, 71, was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.

George Michael says he is ready to start again after four weeks in prison for driving under the ...

Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese activist and writer, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for ...

The first man who was convicted in the killings of three men in a schoolyard faces life in ...

Shanghai rights defenders Ms. Mao Hengfeng, Mr. Du Yangming, and Mr. Tian Baocheng were recently released from prison. ...