“This includes delivering 14,000 new, modern prison places by 2031 and reviewing sentencing so we never run out of space again. We’ll carefully consider the Committee’s recommendations as ...

Cordeiro, who went to prison in 1994 for the slaying of Timothy Blaisdell during a drug deal gone bad on Maui, made it his first order of business when getting out to visit the grave of his mother ...

That's one of his lesser reasons for opposing the South Dakota Department of Corrections' big ask: a $182 million appropriation to finish funding a $825 million, modern men's prison slated for ...

Scotland’s new £1 billion super-prison could be like a “Costa coffee”, the governor of the jail it is replacing has said.

Its multi-tiered housing and other original housing units limit sight lines and the opportunity for supervision when compared to modern prison designs. The facility also struggles to accommodate ...

However prisons are overcrowded, old buildings are ill-suited to the modern prison system, and suicide rates are higher than for most European countries. The Scottish Prisons Service (SPS ...