Solitary Confinement Imprisonment

When solitary confinement stops being solitary for budget reasons.

A bold plan to introduce playing cards featuring the faces of murder victims into Adelaide prisons has ‘exceeded’ expectations, authorities have said.

The Justice Policy Institute has just released a report confirming a major concern voiced by critics of private prisons: the likelihood that those...

A court in Hanoi sentenced a prominent Vietnamese blogger to five years in prison after finding him guilty of posting anti-state writings on his two blogs.

Law student Ai Takagi whose website published made-up stories about foreigners was jailed for 10 months after falling foul on sedition laws.

The Springfield City Council voted Monday on plans to send municipal inmates to Miller and Taney counties.

Overcrowding in Minnesota’s prisons is the result of legislators’ “tough on crime” actions; media shouldn’t frame the solution in terms of rural economics.

More than 1,000 prisoners stayed in their cells during Monday meals at Kinross Correctional Facility, a spokesman said.

The New York Daily News reports that the Southport Correctional facility near Elmira, NY has shelled out $10 million to prisoners in 175 settlements over the past five years. The lawsuits all share…

Prison bosses launch investigation after a prisoner is found dead in his cell at the problem hit prison over the weekend

The Dutch authorities are aiming to reduce the cost of hundreds of empty prison cells by closing the prisons, according to Justice Minister Ard van der Steur.

A Baird government proposal would see the Cessnock Correctional Complex expand by 620 beds.