The Latest Breaking News from Corrections

Time spent on remand continues to increase with Corrections confirming someone has been kept in prison for five years – and their case still isn’t sorted. 

With 12 in-custody deaths, Louisville activists say better health care needed to address jail crisis

An anti-death penalty group says Alabama corrections officials apparently botched a man's execution last month

BALTIMORE — Baltimore prosecutors have dropped the charges against 25 state correctional officers accused in 2019 of using excessive force against inmates and functioning as a criminal enterprise in jails around the city.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Department of Corrections officials who will oversee executions by the electric chair and firing squad in South Carolina do not have the expertise to know how electric voltages or bullets affect the human body to the point of death, argue attorneys who represent three men awaiting…

The United Nations has banned prolonged solitary confinement, so why haven't we? 

Staffing shortages and overcrowding are creating "unacceptable" conditions at Darwin Correctional Centre, legal advocates claim.

ACT's terrible record in prisoners returning to the jail again and again puts new Corrections boss Ray Johnson under tough scrutiny.

Roberta tried to escape her abusive ex-partner. She called triple-zero but police said "stop calling us". Five days later, she was dead.