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Prison Reform Prison System Investigation Death Penalty Proposition 36 Reform Prison Overcrowding Grooming Gangs Inquiry Bail Reform Penitentiary System

California Prison Tablets Allegedly Used for Porn and Grooming

New allegations test California's prison tablet safeguards following April rule changes.

Ontario Jail Errors Left Released Inmates Missing for Months

FOI Records Lay Bare 130% Overcrowding in Ontario Jails as Ford Stands by Big Expansion Plan

Bukele Offers To Send All Salvadoran Prisoners to Colombia After Petro’s Rebuke

NYC Starts Moving Rikers Detainees to New 104-Bed Bellevue Unit

White House Seeks $152 Million to Restart Alcatraz as High-Security Prison

Trump Removes Attorney General Pam Bondi, Names Todd Blanche Acting AG

Flávio Bolsonaro Presses Hardline Crime Measures, Backs Moro for Paraná

Sheinbaum Announces National Plan to Standardize Feminicide Investigations This Month

Mexico Announces National Push to Bolster Forensic Registries and Genetic Identification

Sheinbaum to Release Audit of Mexico’s Missing-Persons Registry This Month

Nation and Buenos Aires Sign Accord to Transfer Marcos Paz Prison, Paving Way to Close Devoto

Bukele Offers to Transfer All Salvadoran Inmates After Clinton Criticizes CECOT

Adams Presses Mamdani on Homelessness, Public Safety and Rent Plans

Mamdani Defends Appointment of Ex-Rapper With 1999 Robbery Convictions to Criminal Justice Transition Panel

Starmer Rejects Death Penalty Referendum at PMQs

31 Dead in Ecuador Prison as Government Begins Transfers to New Maximum-Security Facility

Peru Scraps El Frontón Reopening, Redirects Funds to New Prisons

Salt Lake County Mayor Unveils Budget With 19.63% Property Tax Increase

Seattle Mayor Harrell Defends Diversion-First Response to Repeat Offenders in Debate