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

The crisis in Ecuador’s prisons has escaped the confines of the penitentiary system to sow violence, corruption, and chaos around the country. The political assassinations, terrorist-style attacks, ...

He informed the court that 115 fugitives were apprehended outside the prison and sought their physical remand for 14 days to arrest remaining 101 inmates. However, the court sent the recaptured ...

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission has told IOL that scores of South African nationals are languishing in Zimbabwe’s Harare Remand Prison, awaiting deportation, after they were arrested for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by ...

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) says inmates at Harare Remand Prison are living in degrading and inhumane conditions. In line with its constitutional mandate, the ZHRC conducted a ...

With 240 prisons scattered across the country, holding the largest prison population in Africa, the conditions in SA’s jails remain largely out of view and out of mind. This eye-opening book by three ...

Harare remand prison, despite being guarded 24/7, is no doubt a haven for drugs, smuggling and dealing which is aided by those paid to guard the alleged criminals. Having been forced to make the ...

THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has raised concerns over the gross violations of inmates' rights at Harare Remand Prison. In a statement released recently, the ZHRC said in line with ...

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.

HARARE, May 27 (NewsDay Live) – The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has raised alarm over ‘serious’ human rights violations at Harare Remand Prison following a fact-finding mission ...

“It is in very bad shape.” The prison does feature more modern buildings, but the original stone structure houses several hundred of Rockview's roughly 2,000 inmates, according to Barth.