While these grim figures speak for themselves, a new BBC documentary goes beyond the alarming statistics and occasionally ...

In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film ...

By Lisa Powell SAU Theological Perspective With all the recent discourse around mass incarceration in the U.S., many are now ...

These findings have been given an understandably sympathetic hearing in the Scottish media, while prison authorities have faced significant criticism, including suggestions these two young people were ...

She's also a real-estate agent who earned her license while in college and holds the title of top sales associate in New England ... to visit their parents in prisons across South Carolina.

Tovia Smith is an award-winning NPR National Correspondent based in Boston, who's spent more than three decades covering news around New England and ... abortion and juvenile crime, Smith always ...

From the late 1990s to the early 2010s, thousands of girls as young as 11 were abused and sometimes trafficked in dozens of towns across England (an estimated 1,400 ... tendency to view underage ...

Science purports to have solved the proverbial question of whether infinite monkeys clacking away at typewriters could recreate Shakespeare’s works. They haven’t.

Don’t the tabloids and most politicians have an unending appetite for lurid “soft-touch justice” stories, routinely objecting to the sentences our courts hand down for being too short, repeatedly ...

The man (Guy Pearce with the grand New England-sounding name Harrison Lee Van Buren ... He was sentenced to 8 years in prison, which could include flogging, for propagating content deemed harmful to ...

The Just Stop Oil protesters say they received unduly harsh prison terms –- between 15 months and five years –- for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dozens of prisons in England and Wales do not have fully working perimeter security, the head of the body ...