More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100,000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Spread This NewsBBC The daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, will be charged for ...

Six prisoners claim in a lawsuit that they were subjected to unwarranted violence and sexual assault by correctional officers during a series of September raids at Delaware’s largest prison.

where she revealed that there were 22,000 foreign nationals in South Africa’s jails. The chairwoman expressed concern at the gravity of the situation, stating that of the 22,000 foreigners in the ...

A South African Medical Journal (SAMJ) study explains that South Africa has the fourth highest global incarceration rate, with more than 165,000 prisoners in 237 prisons ... awaiting trial in ...

WASHINGTON — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their ... in what became the largest investigation in Justice ...

South African prisons had an overcrowding rate of 48% in the 2023/2024 financial year, housing 156 000 inmates but only having approved bed spaces for 105 474, correctional services portfolio ...

The correctional services portfolio committee has flagged the issue of overcrowding in prisons, including the ... is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions ...