Normally, the population pays via things like fund-raisers and the profits from visiting-room vending machines. At Clinton Dannemora, a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border, I bought a ...

The top court said prisons are correctional institutions and not extensions of civil society's comforts.

The Supreme Court has ruled that denying prisoners, including those with disabilities, preferred food items does not violate ...

BHUBANESWAR: In a move to maintain public order, the Odisha government has decided to prevent prisoners from physical ...

A state request for proposals sheds lights on the reasons why Iowa is considering privatizing its prison health care services ...

Terrorists inside British prisons are teaching organised criminals how to make bombs, according to a study. In return, ...

For countries lacking overseas territories with cheap land and flexible construction rules, the challenge is tougher. One ...

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Tamil Nadu jail authorities to identify prisoners with disabilities at the ...

Among them was Liubov Demenkova with her 9-year-old daughter Sofiyka. She told The Associated Press her husband Ihor Demenkov ...

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 16 more prisoners, continuing his selective releases while also cracking ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky has filed a class action suit against Kentucky Department of Corrections ...

"Mere non-supply of preferred or costly food items cannot ipso facto be treated as a violation of fundamental rights...The ...