Known worldwide as the “Bangkok Hilton,” Klong Prem Central Prison is Thailand’s largest and one of its most notorious. With the ability to house up to 20,000 prisoners, it operates as a massive ...

A new report by the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College warns that Rikers Island has become the largest mental ...

The United States boasts the world’s largest prison population and high rates of wrongful convictions and recidivism, or the reoffense of ex-convicts. These statistics elicit every sentiment but pride ...

The U.S. prison population increased for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing a decade-long decline. The female prison population is growing at a faster rate than the male population, rising ...

The situation has been particularly acute at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, the state’s only women’s prison. Long condemned as outdated and unsanitary, the facility in recent months ...

A massive wave of coronavirus infections is blasting through the world's largest prison population in the United States even as officials begin opening up their economies, saying the disease has ...

For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world. Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive ...

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline. A new prison population report from the federal Bureau of Justice ...