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Nearly 49,000 Prisoners Freed Early as Recalls Reach Record Levels, MoJ Data Shows

The emergency 40% release policy to relieve overcrowding has coincided with more offenders being sent back for breaching licence conditions.

Tacna Prison Inmate Alleges Repeated Rapes, Eight Detainees Under Investigation

France’s Prison Overcrowding Deepens as Inmate Count Reaches 86,229 on December 1

Italy’s Government Blocks La Russa’s Holiday ‘Mini-Indulto’ Push

One of Two Dijon Prison Escapees Caught, Teen Suspect Still at Large

Hortolândia Prison Disturbance Contained After Inmates Set Mattresses on Fire

Ecuador Reports 10 Inmate Deaths Linked to Tuberculosis at Guayaquil’s Litoral Prison

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

Inmate Dies in La Santé Prison Cell Fire as Paris Opens Inquiry

Indonesia Greenlights First Wave of Clemency Releases Ahead of Independence Day

England and Wales Prisons Confront Record Violence, Self-Harm and Inmate Deaths

Three Inmates Killed and One Injured in Goros II Prison Riot

Riot Erupts at Overcrowded Rieti Prison, Officers Hospitalized

Chamber Speaker Visits Rebibbia Following Alemanno’s Plea, Pledges Reforms

Mattarella Demands Urgent Overhaul of Italy’s Overcrowded Prisons

Government Proposes Community Sentences to Ease Prison Overcrowding

France Explores Sending Foreign Inmates to Eastern Europe to Ease Prison Overcrowding

France Sets Record with Over 81,000 Inmates in Overcrowded Prisons

France Sets Record with Over 80,000 Inmates in Overcrowded Prisons

Director of Overcrowded Mayotte Prison Resigns in Protest