A federal judge has found Washington state in contempt and ordered it to pay more than $100 million for failing to provi...

A Russian court has ordered five people to remain in pre-trial detention for two months pending an investigation into a...

Jails in Uttar Pradesh are no longer "fun" centres for criminals and they have turned into "reform homes" for them, Chie...

An attorney for a U.S. college student and her boyfriend who have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman...

Eid for 122 prisoners lodged outside Jammu and Kashmir was not a lonely one as on the initiative of the Home Ministry, e...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday ordered authorities to keep the arrested members of the Islamic...

Loiterers defying nationwide lockdown were severely penalized on Thursday in Bihar, where close to 40 people ended up in...

The Haryana government has decided to release convicted prisoners with up to seven years of sentences and undertrials on...

New York City has been hit by the nation’s largest coronavirus jail outbreak to date

The new coronavirus has the nation’s jails and prisons on high alert