Prisoners will be temporarily held in police cells to deal with prisons running out of space, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed. The emergency measures, called Operation Safeguard, are ...

The government has triggered an emergency measure to use police cells to hold prisoners, as jails are close to being full again. 'Operation Safeguard' is an agreement between the National Police ...

In early February, Bullock Prison warms up slightly, but the heat is still not working, and the temperature in the prison soon drops again. Furthermore, new problems with the building make the ...

Earlier this week, Cuba completed the release of 553 prisoners despite the collapse of a deal with the United States, Vatican News reported. In January, under the Catholic Church’s mediation ...

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...

For years, however, the prisoners have "vigorously" maintained their innocence, Franks said. Six Americans who were imprisoned in Kuwait have been released in an agreement with the United States.

A freed Palestinian prisoner is greeted upon his arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah, after being released from an Israeli prison in the latest hostages-prisoners exchange between Israel and ...

This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of ...

Hyderabad: The women prisoners must be provided with education, skill development and emotional support, enabling them to Caption- The prisoners at Chanchalguda women`s prison celebrated ...

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Bureau of Prisons not to transfer nine transgender women to men’s prisons. These were in addition to the three plaintiff’s identified in the ...