The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has called for the passage of a law creating a national preventive mechanism against the ...

Government ‘must go further and faster’ to help prisoners trapped on abolished indefinite jail terms as first releases hit ...

Inmates had been kept in prison after their release date because staff “failed to calculate sentences accurately” ...

Inspector issues urgent notification over mice and cockroach infested HMP Pentonville after staff monitoring suicidal inmates ...

This year marks the anniversaries of two essential sets of UN standards on offender management: the 10 th anniversary of the ...

What penal reform advocate Baz Dreisinger learned in two years visiting prisons around the world. A meeting is held for the restorative justice program at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, South Africa.

Long periods of solitary confinement can cause cognitive disturbances, including depression, paranoia and psychosis, according to NGO Penal Reform International.

The award-winning singer-songwriter, an advocate for prison reform in America, talks about our penal system, racial inequality, and fighting for a stronger democracy.

This month, President Barack Obama commuted the long sentences of 46 federal prisoners convicted of drug crimes, and over the next few days he laid out his vision for criminal justice reform in spe… ...

Why, I am often asked, would a criminologist write a book through the eyes of a 19th-century naval captain, his daughter, and a convict? Why fiction? Those questions suggest not implausible ...

Everyone wants prison reformed – even Reform. Labour must be bold - COMMENT: There is widespread public support, even among Nigel Farage’s supporters, for increasing community sentences for ...

Ten months after unprecedented anti-government protests rocked Cuba, parliament unanimously approved on Sunday a penal reform opponents say is designed to quash future displays of public discontent.