A record 17,070 prisoners were on remand at the end of June, representing a fifth of the entire prison population, up from just 6,000 five years ago, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures show.

The Department of Prisons has announced the transfer of superintendents and assistant superintendents across 16 major prison ...

A prison source added that another prisoner suffering from cancer had died on the same day while being transferred from Pallekele to Welikada Prison. “Since Pallekele Prison is located in the dry zone ...

By RNZ A man has died while on remand at Invercargill Prison. Corrections confirmed the man died on May 27, despite staff making every effort to save him. In ...

They are unconvicted, not yet found guilty, but forced to live in the squalor and violent environment of remand prisons. In 2023, 138,117 remand prisoners entered jails and on average there are 17,000 ...

Nearly half of New Zealand’s prison population is on remand. But these units are not suitable for successful rehabilitation, and most people are not eligible anyway.

His chilling account of bed bug infestation in both Harare Central and Harare Remand Prison brings to light a disturbing and long-standing issue: The inhumane conditions in Zimbabwe’s prison system.

Police have commenced an investigation into an incident where an inmate of the Pallekele open-air prison drowned in the Mahaweli River during an escape bid.The Pallekele police conducted a search ...

Here is a list of seven of the world's biggest prisons, remand jails, and political detention centers. It includes confinement facilities in China, Turkey, the Philippines, the US, and India. They ...

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If in 1990s at the remand prisons some 80-100 people were kept in one cell and people were sleeping in three and four shifts, now the situation has changed drastically ...