Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

A recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative indicates that understaffed prisons are a symptom of American mass ...

And given this simple reality, it’s hard to overstate just how shortsighted and destructive our state’s current prison situation – in which thousands of prisoners and security personnel must coexist ...

overcrowded, and dangerous conditions – has become. The bottom line: The main solution to the crisis in our prisons – allotting better funding to hire more staff at decent salaries and improve ...

Alabama’s incarceration rate rose slightly between 2022 and 2023, with a 1.5 percent increase in inmates. Alabama saw a jump ...

Prison reform advocates often point to the Nordic countries as examples of "how to do prison right." The low rates of ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Thousands of prisoners should be moved to open prisons to tackle overcrowding and help prepare inmates for release, a former justice secretary ...

The email complaint was sent by Siddivi Shetty and other prisoners of Thane central Prison, accusing prison authorities of ...