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 ...

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.

When US lawmakers introduced legislation nearly 30 years ago to curb the "frivolous" prisoner lawsuits they said were inundating the courts, they insisted it wouldn't affect prisoners with ...

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 ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is banning the use of preferred pronouns, stopping special pat-down procedures and rejecting underwear requests from transgender prisoners. By Mattathias Schwartz Amy ...

If it passes, new rules will ban all mail to prisoners until it is digitized, as well as books and newspapers. Why would they do this? Ostensibly, it’s necessary in the name of public safety ...

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 ...

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 ...