Showers on some of the wings were dirty, damp and strewn with litter and discarded prison clothing,” the inspectors said. By contrast, the inspectors said that at HMP Channings Wood in Newton Abbot ...

But last year prison officials ordered 381 pieces of outsize clothing for inmates ranging from 2XL up to 7XL, up from 256 in 2023. A report into HMP Hewell, near Redditch, Worcs, found it was not ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

This has raised concern in Parliament's Correctional Services Portfolio Committee. Chairperson Anthea Ramolobeng says this is increasing the burden on South Africa's prisons.

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

Those who walked out of prison included Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys group who was sentenced to 22 years, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes ...

Chairperson of Parliament's Correctional Services Committee, Anthea Ramolobeng. Picture: Phando Jikelo/Parliament CAPE TOWN - The chairperson of Parliament’s correctional services portfolio ...

Colette Peters has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Prisons after 30 months on the job just as President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday. Deputy Director William Lathrop will take over ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday ...

South African prisons had an overcrowding rate of 48% in the 2023/2024 financial year, housing 156 000 inmates but only having approved bed spaces for 105 474, correctional services portfolio ...