California state officials have made more than 63,000 felons convicted of violent crimes eligible for early prison release, including almost 20,000 convicts who are serving life sentences.
A coronavirus variant spread around Michigan as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) Department of Corrections (DOC) transferred inmates between prisons.
The Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) is charting a new course that contrasts with the Trump administration’s effort to prevent men from being housed in spaces with vulnerable women.
Migrant minors are reportedly causing havoc in French prisons and juvenile detention centres, though some doubt the migrants are the age they claim to be.
President Joe Biden is reinstating an Obama era-policy to phase out the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) contracts with a handful of privately-managed prisons that almost entirely hold foreign nationals convicted of federal crimes.
Britain’s prison system is facilitating the spread of extremist ideologies by taking a soft approach to convicted terrorists, the government’s independent terrorism watchdog has found.
Islamist terrorist Kujtim Fejzulai had fooled Austrian officials running a deradicalisation programme he was attending before his early prison release that he was reformed — similar to London Bridge terror attacker Usman Khan.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has signed a bill into law that allows individuals to pick their “gender identity” before their incarceration in a men’s or women’s prison.
California lawmakers are poised to pass legislation allowing biological men to be put into the women’s prison population.
Portland police declared a riot on Wednesday night as rioters burned a severed pig’s head, American and Trump flags, and attacked officers.
Dena Love is expressing outrage that a California prison has released the inmate who killed her brother, Kevin “John” Ruska Jr., as part of a widespread release of criminals due to coronavirus fears.
California officials said almost 18,000 inmates in state prisons are being released because of the coronavirus.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is poised to release as many as 8,000 prisoners into the state to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Protesters who have cordoned off several blocks in Seattle, declaring it a “cop-free zone” and “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” have released a long list of demands, including abolition of the Seattle Police Department and prisons, amnesty for all illegal migrants, and free health care and college for all, especially for blacks as a form of reparations.
A drone carrying illegal drugs into a prison in Belgium has crashed, with local authorities saying the crash was caused by the drone being overloaded.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele authorized the police to use “lethal force” against gang members on Sunday, accusing gangsters of taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to launch a deadly rampage against cops and law-abiding Salvadorans.
A group of prisoners granted early release in the Indonesian province of Gorontalo last week celebrated their freedom by making a TikTok video dancing to music from Spongebob Squarepants, the Asian outlet Coconuts reported on Tuesday.
House Democrats, led by Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY), are urging Attorney General Bill Barr to “release as many prisoners as possible” as states work to handle the coronavirus outbreaks in their states.
The White House Legislative Affairs Office is reportedly asking Congress to pass legislation that would provide an early release to thousands of felons 60 years old and older in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
A prison riot in the Colombian capital of Bogotá on Saturday sparked by the ongoing Chinese coronavirus outbreak has left 23 people dead and a further 83 injured, the country’s Minister of Justice Margarita Cabello announced on Sunday.
Iran announced on Tuesday that it had temporarily freed roughly 85,000 prisoners in an attempt to control the nation’s novel coronavirus outbreak.
A man convicted of killing a grieving mother with “industrial strength” acid has launched an Islamist terror attack on prison staff after becoming radicalised behind bars, according to reports.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign indirectly used prison labor to make telephone calls, according to a Tuesday report.
Prosecutors have told a judge that missing security footage from outside deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s New York City prison cell has been located, CNBC reported Friday.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage laid down the law to representatives of other political parties in a Sunday election debate, slamming “liberal elite” weakness and demanding serious action against radical Islamic terrorists.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that will prohibit for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers from operating inside the state.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) advocated for mixed-sex prisons as part of the “LGBTQ+ Rights and Equality” plan she released on Thursday, hours before the Human Rights Campaign’s town hall on CNN.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the third 2020 Democrat presidential primary debate that no “non-violent” convicted criminals should be serving time in prisons across the United States.
Over 7,000 people have died in Venezuelan prisons since the socialist regime seized power in 1999, according to a study published Thursday by the Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP).
Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó’s deputy, Edgar Zambrano, has been on a hunger strike for the past nine days following his incarceration in May by the Maduro regime, his party’s general secretary revealed on Thursday.
Muslim prison gangs are forcing inmates to convert to Islam and follow religious practices or face violent repercussions, according to a government report.
At least 55 people have died in prison riots in Manaus, Brazil, since Sunday in a prison complex notorious for overcrowding and extreme violence.
A court in Belgium has forced the Belgian state to compensate radical Islamic prisoners because of a policy of isolating them from the rest of the prison population aimed at stopping the spread of radicalisation.
The proportion of prison inmates housed in German jails who were born abroad has risen to 32 per cent this year, according to the latest government figures.
Female prison guards at men’s jails are now just as likely to be attacked as their male colleagues thanks to advances made by feminism in the past 10 years, MPs have heard. UK prisons chief Michael Spurr, who has worked
The number of foreign-born prisoners in Berlin is increasing according to new figures that show 90 different countries are now represented in the German capital’s prison system. Convicted criminals without a German passport are now a majority in the German
Victorville Federal Prison, which was designed to hold 1,400 inmates, is struggling to house an extra 1,000 border detainees due to stepped-up immigration enforcement efforts.
Convicted intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning wants to eliminate U.S. borders, close prisons, and get rid of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if elected to be Maryland’s next senator.
Police are investigating two suspicious deaths in one of France’s prisons that is known for its large population of Islamic extremists.
The Ministry of Justice is recruiting pagan chaplains to provide “religious care” at prisons across the country – with annual salaries of up to £29,ooo – despite many of the recruiting prisons facing guard shortages, Islamic extremist inmates, and drug epidemics.
