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 ...

Domestic abusers could be freed from jail on electronic tags as little as a quarter of the way through their sentence under ...

The intervention in another Venezuelan prison under criminal leaders' control highlights the failure of President Nicolás ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARAGOULD, Ark. (KAIT) - With the new prison in Franklin County, there will be more room for prisoners in county jails across ...