They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to ...

Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded ...

An over-reliance on a “tough on crime” approach is worsening the prison overcrowding crisis, Labour’s sentencing tsar has ...

New analysis suggests sentencing reform are often focusing only on punishment in a bid to look “tough on crime” often leading ...

A long-running crisis of overstuffed jails and backlogged courts has reached a critical level.View on euronews ...

The first of up to 390 prisoners are being released early in the latest attempt to ease overcrowding in Scotland's jails.

It's expected the change will reduce the prison population by 5%, according to the Scottish Government. | ITV News Border ...

UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tsar finds - David Gauke, former Conservative ...

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

The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.

The writers urge Washington lawmakers to pass the Judicial Discretion Act, allowing judges to modify some prison sentences.