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Byline: Sally Weale, Education correspondent Children in youth offender institutions (YOIs) are being denied access to education, with too many being kept in their cells as staff struggle to keep [...]

Byline: Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor HMP Brixton, the most overcrowded prison in the country for moderate-risk inmates, is failing to prepare prisoners for release, with nearly half saying it [...]

Byline: Samantha Melamed Aug. 23Two inmates tested positive this week for Legionnaires' disease at the State Correctional Institution-Phoenix in Montgomery County, a state prisons spokesperson confirmed on Friday. 'The first [...]

Byline: By, Hannah Richardson England's prisons are 'in crisis', the Ministry of Justice MoJ has told LeicestershireLive. The government department's statement comes after a report on HMP Leicester found the [...]

Byline: Kevin Rawlinson If you are one those people who turns up their nose at the plot of the Shawshank Redemption for being a little too far-fetched, this may come [...]

Byline: Vikram Dodd and Rajeev Syal The government has formally triggered a crisis measure to ease prison overcrowding by using police cells to house inmates. The confirmation of Operation Safeguard [...]

A complaint filed by the Legal Aid Society and others accuses the state prison system of holding mentally ill and disabled people in isolation despite a law against the practice. [...]

Byline: Tom Perkins Nearly half of US prisons draw water from sources likely contaminated with toxic PFAS 'forever chemicals', new research finds. At least around 1m people incarcerated in the [...]

Half of prisoners were on drugs during a jail inspection, prompting warnings of a 'tsunami' of illegal substances behind bars. The inspection at HMP Hindley, a category C jail near [...]

Byline: Tamsin Rose NSW state correspondent The former corrections officer Wayne Astill should 'never have been employed' to work in New South Wales prisons, an inquiry has found, after complaints [...]

Byline: Adeshola Ore An Indigenous prisoner used a pencil sharpener and tweezers to treat an ingrown toenail after delays in seeing a doctor to assess the painful condition, with the [...]

Byline: Sarah Aziz in Kolkata When Tapas Kumar Bhanja was appointed to investigate conditions in West Bengal's overcrowded prisons in 1990, he was not prepared for what he discovered. Women [...]

Byline: Poet Wolfe in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Lois Ratcliff says she hardly survived watching her son slowly die in one of the US south's most brutal prisons. Ratcliff's son, Farrell [...]

Byline: Perry Stein A combination of negligence, operational failures and a blundering workforce has contributed to hundreds of inmate deaths in federal custody, according to a report released Thursday morning [...]

Byline: Tamsin Rose New South Wales state correspondent Prisoners were routinely strip-searched on their way into one of New South Wales's biggest maximum security prisons, which the Inspector of Custodial [...]

Byline: Helen Livingstone block-time published-time 4.54am GMT 11 Israeli hostages freed, taken to Tel Aviv hospital Eleven Israeli hostages, nine children and two women, were freed by Hamas late Monday [...]

Byline: Sam Levin in Los Angeles Women incarcerated in California state prisons have filed hundreds of complaints of sexual abuse by staff since 2014. But in that time frame, only [...]

Byline: HILLEL ITALIE; ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Tens of thousands of books are being banned or restricted by U.S. prisons, according to a new report from PEN America. The [...]

Byline: Paul Karp Chief political correspondent Peter Dutton's home affairs department was warned that immigration detention was 'failing' by an independent review but options to reduce reliance on detention were [...]

Byline: Edwin Rios Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor who was convicted of decades of abuse of women and girls under the guise of medical [...]

The man known as the “Unabomber” had been transferred to a federal prison medical center in 2021 after more than 25 years at a maximum security facility. Theodore J. Kaczynski, [...]

The report presents key data relating to the average daily prison population, receptions and discharges for Northern Ireland during 2022/23. The key findings were as follows: Average Daily Prison Population [...]

Special notice (original) fy2023 federal prison industries (unicor) six months sales report Fpi six month sales report Fiscal year 2023 Pursuant to legislative requirements, 18 u.S.C., section 4122, fpi has [...]

Contract awarded for Pohang Prison Internment Building Stair Railing (Fall Prevention) Safety Reinforcement Construction Notice Submission of Small Quantity Report Bid amount (KRW): 87,246,146 Actual checkout date and time: 2023/10/04 [...]

Contract notice: open tender, in asp mode, according to the criterion of the most economically advantageous offer, for the supply of n. 20,000 summer operational uniforms for the penitentiary police [...]

The Chief Inspector has praised the Prison Service and its partners for the pace shown in addressing recommendations and for the innovation demonstrated in finding solutions to concerns raised in [...]

Byline: Mark Townsend Asylum seekers have been forced to live for a year in windowless rooms smaller than prison cells, served food so dire it is blamed for causing diabetes, [...]

Byline: Mark Townsend Asylum seekers have been forced to live for a year in windowless rooms smaller than prison cells, served food so dire it is blamed for causing diabetes, [...]

In March 2022, Ofsted and His Majestys Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) published a joint review of reading education in prisons, which highlighted the barriers preventing prisoners from receiving the support [...]

Tenders are invited for Ifb c5611527-d prison rape elimination act (prea) auditing services The prison rape elimination act (prea) of 2003 requires that state and local jurisdictions adhere to facility [...]

Byline: Martin Farrer block-time published-time 7.30pm GMT 90,000 school children failing to meet Naplan standards Almost 90,000 students each year are failing to meet minimum Naplan reading or numeracy standards, [...]

Byline: Sam Levin in Los Angeles Prison guards stood by as Janet Carter, 69, sat in her wheelchair and tried to explain the gaps in her memory. It was May [...]

Byline: Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor Black prisoners and white guards should cook and eat together as a way of breaking down cultural barriers and suspicions, the official prisons watchdog [...]

The Minister for Justice Simon Harris and the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly have today published the report on the Health Needs Assessment (HNA) for the Irish Prison Service. This [...]

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Following the daring escape of convicted murderer and rapist, Thabo Bester, from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in the Free State, Correctional Services National Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale, has announced the appointment [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Combining the administration of state prisons and county jails is not a solution for New Mexico 'at this time,' according to a task force created by [...]

Contract notice: supply of raw materials for feeding inmates in penitentiary centers dependent on the iipp general secretariat, as stated in the distribution of lots and centers of the supporting [...]

Contract awarded for: Lco 04/22 - contracting of consulting services for the preparation of an audit report on the environmental management plan of prisons, prisons, farms and educational centers of [...]

Byline: Sarah Collard An Aboriginal teenager who died in prison from complications due to rheumatic heart disease would not have died if he had seen a specialist, a Western Australian [...]

Byline: Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles Incarcerated workers in the US produce at least $11bn in goods and services annually but receive just pennies an hour in wages for their [...]

Top story: Zelenskiy presses for more Nato support Greetings from me, Warren Murray, on this Monday morning. Ukraine has defied a Russian military deadline that passed early this morning for [...]

Byline: Charles Hymas Home AffAirS editor It is the 'super-prison' of the future, where offenders are known as residents, cells are called rooms and there are no bars on the [...]

Byline: Campbell MacDiarmid The day after Kurdish-led forces in north-east Syria declared an end to a week-long Islamic State prison siege that had killed hundreds, bullets began to fly once [...]

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Byline: Eric Allison and Simon Hattenstone Children locked in their rooms for up to 23 hours a day, young teenagers exposed to violence and excessive force, safeguarding systems in disarray: [...]

Byline: Sally Weale Education correspondent Children being held in a privately-run prison have been locked in their rooms for up to 23 hours a day in uncomfortably hot conditions, according [...]

Byline: Diane Taylorand Hannah Devlin Experts have warned that more babies could die in prison due to the government's expansion of female prison places and ministers' refusal to grant multiple [...]

Byline: Diane Taylor A catalogue of failures among prison and health professionals has been highlighted in an investigation report into the death of a teenager's baby after she gave birth [...]