Justice and Correctional Services minister, Nelson Ramaotwana, says Botswana Prisons Service (BPS) needs a budget ofP860,008,240 to cover operational and rehabilitation of inmates, the funds he feels ...

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...

Despite multiple court rulings barring the transfer of trans female inmates in federal prisons to men’s facilities, trans prisoners are still being forcibly removed and denied gender healthcare ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison on Saturday, a day after a Seoul court canceled his arrest to allow him to stand ...

Three transgender people incarcerated in federal custody sued the Trump administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Friday in a class action lawsuit over new policies restricting their ...

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most ...

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been sentenced to one year in prison for defying the rulings of the top international official overseeing peace in the Balkan country. The court in the ...

LANSING, MI – Two prisoners are claiming the state’s prison system is forcing women to work for free and are asking the court to act. Lisa Louise Upchurch and Ruqayyah Blue filed a class ...

Dec. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] A judge on Tuesday gave final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...