LOS ANGELES (AP) — The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — At least 241 people have died in El Salvador prisons since the start of President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs” two years ago, according to the organization Humanitarian Legal Relief. Ingrid Escobar, director of the rights organization, said
Overseas criminals could be booted out of the country rather than prosecuted, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has said, in accordance with bold new plans to create more space in Britain’s overcrowded jails. Mr Chalk is proposing to give foreign offenders “conditional cautions”
Kelvin MacKenzie, a former newspaper editor and conservative columnist, laid into the latest revelations in the Post Office scandal. Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr MacKenzie said that Britain would “have to build more prisons to house all the Fujitsu
Vladimir Putin has resorted to desperate measures to recruit more soldiers into his flagging army. The president reportedly personally approved of a plan to cut off heating in Russian prisons to force prisoners to join the army. President Putin wants to exploit
British prisons are so overcrowded that convicted rapists and burglars will be spared jail from next week. Crown court judges have been ordered to delay sentencing hearings, as the country’s prisons are full. The measure is said to be “short-term” but judges
Ecuadorian authorities announced Friday the release of 50 guards and seven police officers who were taken hostage for more than a day, in what the government described as a response by criminal groups to its efforts to regain control of several large
The Ukrainian civilians woke long before dawn in the bitter cold, lined up for the single toilet and were loaded at gunpoint into the livestock trailer. They spent the next 12 hours or more digging trenches on the front lines for Russian
Fears of “zombie viruses” breaking free from frozen prisons have been raised as a possible consequence of climate change. Despite having lain dormant for tens of thousands of years, ancient viruses found in permafrost can still infect amoeba once revived. This is
Rules coming into force tomorrow will stop transgender women offenders who have committed violent or sexual crimes being locked up with female prisoners in England and Wales. The new rules mean any inmate with male genitalia will be barred from living alongside women