When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

The country’s prison facilities, which operate at 375 percent overcapacity, are the third worst in the world after the Democratic Republic of Congo (600 percent) and Haiti (400 percent).

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Some of the most deplorable episodes in U.S. history involve the government wielding the power of the state against minority groups: Black people, Indigenous people and gay people, to name just a few.

This time, though, the government would also aim to send members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to Salvadoran prisons, said Mauricio Claver-Carone, the State Department’s special envoy ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday it was in talks with El Salvador to revive an agreement that could allow the United States to send non-Salvadoran migrants ...

The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood set out the 10-year plan to ensure there is "always a place in our prisons for dangerous offenders", with the prison… The UK government announced plans on ...

“I think Sweden's problem is a welfare state and the set up of prisons. It is hugely attractive for people who are not law-abiding citizens because in worst ... on in the world,” he said.