Workers tell BBC they are increasingly having to put two inmates in single occupancy cells because of overcrowding.

Early release is the latest stop-gap solution to solve overcrowding in prisons, but a media storm forced Andy Burnham to reconsider. Amid pledges to build more space, Sian Harrison hears calls for ...

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden announced plans to reopen Jail North later this month to help alleviate severe overcrowding at the Uptown detention center.

Governors at 10 medium-security jails have been ordered to draw up plans to put a second bed into temporary buildings being ...

Lalmonirhat district Jail is accommodating more than three times its approved capacity, raising concerns over the health and living conditions of the inmates.According to prison ...

Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith says his department’s arrests are contributing to overcrowding at the Caddo Correctional ...

As temperatures in the country continue to approach 90 degrees Fahrenheit, inmates have been sleeping on concrete cell floors ...

Finland is considering sending inmates abroad to serve their terms as the domestic prison system has become overcrowded.

Jail overcrowding in Salt Lake County and the public safety consequences of releasing inmates early were the focus of a Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Com ...

A family is grieving after a man was beaten to death in a Nashville jail. An attorney for the man’s mother links his death to overcrowding in the city’s jail system. Even though correction officers ...