When discussing the largest prisons in the world, size can mean two things: total inmate population or overall capacity. Many of the biggest facilities are actually sprawling complexes that contain ...

TUTWILER, MISSISSIPPI — The cotton is just beginning to bloom. It’s late August in the Mississippi Delta, an alluvial plain formed by soil deposited from the Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi rivers over ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask. Inspector General of the Nebraska Correctional System Doug ...

West Virginia prisons are exceeding their capacity, and some in the state's eastern panhandle say arrests by federal ICE ...

Vulnerable prisoners inside one of the country’s most overcrowded prisons are being put at risk, a watchdog has warned, after 16 self-inflicted deaths in three years. HMP Leeds recorded the highest ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final ...

Experts say heatwaves are likely to become more frequent across Europe Guards say high temperatures can create security risks, with fights becoming more common Inmates at a prison in southwestern ...

Prison population was over capacity. MIAMI -- Feb. 15, 2012— -- One of the deadliest prison fires in history tore through an overcrowded prison in Honduras overnight, killing as many as 350 ...

The Prison Officers' Association blamed the influence of organised criminal gangs operating behind bars for deteriorating ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final ...