ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final ...

Aspects of daily life behind bars include cells so crowded that detainees cannot move without climbing over one another, and inmates sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor for weeks or months.

Pope Leo XIV has strongly criticised prison overcrowding and inadequate inmate rehabilitation programmes, delivering his message during a special Mass for detainees, guards, and their families at the ...

IRISH jails were operating at such extreme levels of overcrowding that senior officials warned they might not be able to take any new inmates and would struggle to produce prisoners at court. In a ...

This is Room 6, inmate number 000. My head has been hurting since yesterday. Could you check my blood pressure?” “…Please wait.” At 10 a.m. on the 29th of last month, the first floor of the female ...

Greece plans mass early release of inmates with state-funded ankle monitors to ease 25% prison overcrowding while expanding facilities.

Latest figures show 585 inmates sleeping on floor, while total prison population increased by 40 since Jan. 26. - Anadolu ...

PROCUVIN prosecutor’s office for institutional violence issues stark warning over increase of prison population and the deterioration of conditions for detainees.