Rick Snyder said the jail's daily population limit is an artificial cap set by the City-County Council.

The ACLU of Georgia released a report documenting chronic overcrowding at the Fulton County Jail, which has led to 32 deaths ...

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections has investigated complaints about overcrowding and other alleged sub-par conditions at the Butler County Jail and declared them “unfounded.” ...

It might not be quite as long as Charles Dickens’s epic courtroom novel Bleak House, about England’s longest-running court ...

A massive plumbing failure at Montana's state prison revealed serious faults in the facility’s infrastructure. Despite recent ...

Sheriff Forestal is asking the feds and the state to transfer people held in Indianapolis elsewhere in a timely manner, or ...

ROME — 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 event ...

I want to know what it is (Gov. Jared Polis’) administration is going to do and going to support, beyond just continued ...

The Chief Inspector of Prisons has said that he has "grave concerns" about "degrading conditions" in Cloverhill Prison while ...