Those freed from Israeli prisons included 69 women and 21 teenage boys from the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to Hamas. In Tel Aviv, hundreds of Israelis cheered and wept in a square ...

BOP Director Colette Peters no longer works for the federal prison system. During her tenure, she shut down FCI Dublin after she said she couldn't turn around the culture there. Union members are ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

This has raised concern in Parliament's Correctional Services Portfolio Committee. Chairperson Anthea Ramolobeng says this is increasing the burden on South Africa's prisons.

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

Those who walked out of prison included Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys group who was sentenced to 22 years, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes ...

Chairperson of Parliament's Correctional Services Committee, Anthea Ramolobeng. Picture: Phando Jikelo/Parliament CAPE TOWN - The chairperson of Parliament’s correctional services portfolio ...

Colette Peters has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Prisons after 30 months on the job just as President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday. Deputy Director William Lathrop will take over ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday ...

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 ...