ROME — 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 event ...

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.

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Overcrowded Nebraska prisons force some inmates to share cells that were designed for just one person. Experts say this can exacerbate or cause mental health problems. The Nebraska Department of ...

Earlier, prisons chief warned that more than 600 inmates are sleeping on the floor, calling for possible police or military help - Anadolu Ajansı ...

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The emergency has been caused by a lack of adequate facilities and the extensive use of preventive detention pending trial. There are at least 40,000 prisoners on the island in facilities with a total ...

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 ...

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 ...