The UN’s top expert on torture on Thursday criticised overcrowding in Senegal’s prisons, warning that it could spark violence ...

The committee, which comprises additional chief secretaries of the finance and home departments, A. Jayathilak and Subrata ...

Urgent reform is needed to avoid another prison overcrowding crisis as rising numbers of people being recalled to prison is ...

Michael Stoney said new early release laws were necessary for staff and inmates at Barlinnie prison in Glasgow ...

The NT government is pressing ahead with plans to fast-track major projects and address overcrowded prisons in the second day of parliamentary sittings. Meanwhile, Indigenous Territorians have ...

Staff at a prison have described working conditions as "unacceptable" and called on the government to take action. The Prison ...

State’s advocate Savita Yadav strongly opposed bail citing Shaikh’s 20 criminal antecedents and the risk of witness ...

And everybody has a right to feel safe.” “I firmly believe that the overcrowding of prisons has led to the understaffing of prisons,” Charles said. The solution, according to him ...

Overcrowding in prisons can be dealt with through measures, like: adoption of non-custodial sentencing options for minor offences; operationalisation of parole and probation system; shifting ...

The women’s prison was at 152 per cent capacity with 85 prisoners in the 56-bed unit. There was also overcrowding in Portlaoise Prison, where there were 247 people in the 226-bed prison.

JOHANNESBURG - Some prisons have more foreign prisoners than locals as cells burst at the seams. More than 22,000 foreign nationals occupy South African prisons, with 690 of those serving life ...