Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the ...

The teacher said men in women’s prison is directly contradictory to a key mission of the DOC: rehabilitating offenders so they can be successful upon release.

The mistaken early release of an abusive man left one of his victims “scared” and “really angry”, she has told ...

enjoyed some special privileges in prison, including furnished single cells, a designated inmate to run errands for him, access to a fridge and television, among others. The panel, constituted by ...

A significant number of inmates there were being held in single cells — a prison practice where each cell is assigned to only one inmate. A series of investigations by the BOP watchdog in recent ...

In Italy, Cooperativa Alice helps inmates and women ... The exterior of the Bollate prison, where Cooperativa Alice is scheduled to open a new workshop in the women’s unit next month.Credit ...

The ministry is banning the use of 35 terms which, if used after a prisoner's release, could single him or her out as a ...

This week, the Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said that her ‘ultimate ambition’ was to close women’s prisons, saying they were simply ‘forcing women into a life of crime’. As a former inmate who ...

UK prisons are full and the new government's initial attempts to deal with that by releasing some prisoners early was ... for crimes committed against women and girls fits the severity of the ...

“Homicides in women’s prisons are extremely rare, and the thought that the same person could have allegedly killed two different fellow prisoners in a span of days is mind boggling, and it ...

Lewisburg federal prison is a medium-security men’s institution located in central Pennsylvania, and thousands of inmates often pass through there on their way to other BOP-run institutions. A ...

DOWNINGTOWN EAST BECAUSE OF THE INCIDENT. AND NEW AT SIX. AN INMATE AT THE DAUPHIN COUNTY PRISON IS NOW CHARGED FOLLOWING TEN OVERDOSES AT THE PRISON. SHANE UNDERKOFFLER IS CHARGED FOR CONTRABAND ...