India’s prisons are turning into catastrophic death zones. Alarming levels of overcrowding, with some jails operating at up to 477 per cent capacity, is making prisons tough to survive.

ALBANY – The longest prison guard strike in state history earlier this year has prompted new measures in the state budget to hire more correction officers to contend with a staff shortage that ...

The Trump administration has begun reopening immigrant detention facilities and shuttered prisons nationwide, the latest move in its effort to arrest, detain, and then deport illegal immigrants in ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz prison for incarcerating “America’s most ruthless and violent offenders” has all the hallmarks of his cruel ...

It was September 2023, and Rigsby, 46, had been brought to Jackson Hospital from an Alabama state prison 10 days earlier after complaining of pain and swelling in his abdomen. Doctors found that ...

STURTEVANT — A prisoner overdosing in his cell led law enforcement to uncover his illegal sexual relationship with a prison supervisor, according to criminal charges filed. After the prisoner ...

Beginning in the 1980s, federal budgetary constraints and increasing incarceration rates moved the U.S. government to issue its first contracts with the private prison industry. This action fired ...

After raising red flags with his administration’s plans to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad, Donald Trump is reopening one of the country’s most notorious prisons. On Sunday, the president ...

President Donald Trump said Sunday he will direct several federal agencies to "reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz," a facility that for decades was a federal prison and is now a ...

Chiore, who leads one of the biggest apostolic sects in the country, was recently in Botswana for a Passover gathering that was attended by thousands of congregants from both Botswana and Zimbabwe.