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Rats, overcrowding and urgent riot warnings — my day inside a London jail
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 5 hours agoBritain’s prisons are “on the precipice of failure”, with warnings that jails could run out of space...
Justice Secretary to reveal plan to deal with ‘catastrophic’ prison overcrowding
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo Canada News· 15 hours agoThe Justice Secretary is set to announce plans on Friday to address prison overcrowding amid fears...
Inmates escape from one of Niger’s most fortified prisons where jihadis are held
Toronto Star· 3 hours agoNigerien authorities enforced a curfew Friday as they searched for inmates who escaped from one of the country’s most fortified prisons in the& ...
Plans to tackle prison overcrowding to be set out
BBC News· 15 hours agoThe justice secretary is to set out plans later to address prison overcrowding in England and Wales after concerns that jails may run out of space
The Government’s confirmed key policy positions at a glance
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo Canada News· 3 hours agoThe Justice Secretary is set to announce plans on Friday to address prison overcrowding amid fears...
Congress OKs bill overhauling oversight of troubled federal Bureau of Prisons
Toronto Star· 2 days agoThe Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the...
Former guards and inmate families urge lawmakers to fix Wisconsin prisons
Toronto Star· 3 days agoFormer guards in Wisconsin prisons and family members of people incarcerated there urged lawmakers...
Why are thousands of prisoners set to be released early?
BBC News· 5 hours agoEmergency measures to deal with prison overcrowding in England and Wales are expected to be...
The Imagination Flies Free in Sing Sing’s Maximum-Security Prison
Time via Yahoo Canada News· 3 days agoIf a group of forgotten men can pull this sort of thing off, then what excuse do the rest of us...
Missouri AG stops release of longest-serving wrongfully convicted woman who had been held in prison...
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 23 hours agoSandra Hemme, considered the longest-known wrongly incarcerated woman in the US, has spent 43 years...