Tag: prisons

For any prison, there is only one buyer of their service: the federal government. (FEE) By David Youngberg Orange Is ...

More than 300 inmates were killed in Venezuela's violent and overcrowded prisons in 2014, according to a report from a ...

Two civil-rights groups filed a lawsuit against the Canadian federal government on Monday, January 19, seeking limits on solitary confinement in ...

EspañolColombia's jail system is overpopulated by 53.3 percent, according to a report released on October 1 by the National Institute ...

In the rest of the world, penitentiary systems are the state's last resource to modify antisocial behavior. Prisons are, by ...

EspañolLast year, 24,763 people suffered violent deaths in Venezuela. This means, on average, 67 Venezuelans, regardless of political affiliation or ...

Just weeks after the federal Canadian prison system faced harsh criticism — in an annual report by correctional investigator Howard ...