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The Minister of Justice has a dismal job these days, and prison overcrowding is probably the most dispiriting issue to land in his in-tray. Yesterday the screw was turned: the leader of the Prison Governors’ Association warned Alex Chalk that the men’s prison estate was essentially full, and that women’s prisons were not far behind.

Only 12 people have escaped prison walls over the past 10 years - a quarter of them from HMP Wandsworth where Daniel Khalife made a dramatic exit from on Wednesday morning.

No, not as a guest role in Law & Order.

California Democrats previously pushed for five more prison closures by 2027.

Russian jails were already struggling thanks to long investigations and an arrest bias. But the conflict in Ukraine has made a bad situation worse in detention centers around the country, with so-called Ukrainian "spies and traitors" locked up without trial.

Authorities in Zimbabwe Friday started releasing 4,270 prison inmates who were granted amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa earlier this month ahead of general elections. As Columbus Mavhunga reports from Harare, the development is welcomed because it decongests Zimbabwe's overcrowded prisons.

‘We once again have single cells doubled up, mattresses on floors, prisoner population going through the roof,’ POA leader Tony Power said.

Water down punishments. that is why they call him sir softy. soft on crime, soft on criminals. i prosecuted thousands crime, soft on criminals. i prosecuted thousands upon thousands of sex offenders. he isjust prosecuted thousands upon thousands of sex offenders. he is just shown he doesnt understand how the criminaljustice he doesnt understand how the criminal justice system he doesnt understand how the criminaljustice system works. no wonder he cannot fix it. and he thinks are cracking down on...

LINCOLN — The State of Nebraska is one step closer to embarking on perhaps its most expensive construction project in history. On an 8-0 vote, with one member absent, the

While the representation of women judges in the subordinate courts is rising, the same cannot be said about the high courts. Between 2020 and 2022, the high courts saw a little less than two percentage point increase in women’s representation.