According to a poll, 80 percent of prospective Republican voters say the justice system isn't tough enough on criminals.

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The recent renaming of Port Blair to Sri Vijaya Puram serves as a reminder that centuries ago, the island was a part of Chola ...

The compounds housing these prisoners which make up over 18,000 (11.8%) of the prison population have double fenced razor wire, electrical charged fencing, perimeter patrols and secure cells.

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The U.S. government announced Thursday that it secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners, who have arrived in Guatemala where they will apply for entry to the United States or ...

Lawyers for prisoners on Rikers Island continued in court Wednesday to make the same arguments they have for years — that a massive overhaul is needed to make the city’s jails safer ...

American forces fought for more than two weeks until forced to surrender, and Knox was among the civilian workers taken as prisoners of war. Knox remained on Wake Island working for Japanese ...

Some prisoners released early this week have been recalled to jail within days of being freed, The Telegraph can reveal. The first criminal to be returned to prison is understood to have been ...

Thousands of prisoners are being released early in England and Wales today as the prisons watchdog warned it was 'inevitable' some will reoffend. Around 1,700 prisoners are expected to be let out ...

CCTV footage from Vale de Judeus prison caught the other prisoners - two Portuguese and two Romanians - escaping through the wall that protects the prison. They escaped from a prison near Lisbon ...