Jails across the country are stretched thin due to staffing shortages, the opioid crisis, COVID and other factors.

Sussex Police has confirmed 32 prisoners have been released across Sussex under the Early Release Scheme. Another 178 people ...

The biggest funder in support of Prop 36 was Walmart, according to a Los Angeles Times investigation tracking the money on ...

Central Australian community leaders are increasingly alarmed over plans to move young offenders from Alice Springs to the ...

South Dakotans are getting a better idea of what a new men’s prison planned for rural Lincoln County between Canton and ...

Elle Edwards's father, Tim, says releasing Thomas Waring to ease prison overcrowding is a "kick in the teeth".

A group that oversees prison financing voted Wednesday to call the Alabama facility the “Governor Kay Ivey Correctional ...

Georgia lawmakers are taking a deeper dive into funding options to reduce overcrowding, violence, and safety concerns within the state’s prison system.

Authorities say the number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison has risen to 17, a day after the goriest prison episode under the watch of President Daniel Noboa ...

Ecuador’s prisons have become among the deadliest in Latin America as overcrowding, corruption and weak state ... continue to ...

Those transfers led to overcrowding and inhumane conditions ... said via email that "staff are now making plans for transfers ...