MANILA — The Philippine National Police (PNP) has expressed concern over the poor condition in overcrowded detention facilities in local police stations, following the death of an...
PARIS — Protesting guards are blocking some of France’s 188 prisons as the conflict triggered by attacks on guards enters its second week. About 100 guards...
CHICAGO — Lawyers for a transgender woman say Illinois’ Department of Corrections has agreed to move her from her current male prison where she says she’s...
BALI, Indonesia — An American citizen detained for a drug offence has escaped from a prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. Head of Kerobokan...
MANILA — The departments of Justice and Interior and Local Government on Friday launched the first uniform guideline that would decongest jails and prisons through standardizing the...
BEIJING — A court in central China has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to two years in prison on the vague charge of inciting subversion...
EDMONTON — Union officials say opioids are spreading to prisons and that’s putting prison guards at risk. Jason Godin, president of the Union of Correctional Services,...
DEER LODGE, Mont.—A Canadian on death row in Montana has been living on borrowed time since admitting he murdered two young men more than three decades...
MANILA — During his first night in a cell he shared with the oldest detainee in the provincial jail, retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan claimed...
A transgender woman from London, England, who was held in a men’s jail after being detained over an apparent immigration issue in Canada has filed two...