Contraband is smuggled into correctional facilities with the substantial assistance of officials. This came to light during the parliamentary portfolio committee on correctional service’s ...

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Two U.S. lawmakers have asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold an “urgent” hearing about the Trump administration’s decision to hold detained migrants — many of whom are seeking ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, in Gaza, Dec. 8 ...

Faced with seven homicides in the first nine weeks of the year, California prison authorities announced they have restricted inmate movement and revoked privileges such as visits and phone calls ...

From Porridge to Prison Break, TV audiences have long had a fascination with incarceration. With bars reducing the options for action, the consequences are always amplified. A captive audience is ...

WASHINGTON – In a video circulated last weekend by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, the new inmates of his infamous Terrorism Confinement Center were shackled by the hands and feet and yanked ...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia, March 26 (Reuters) - A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of ...