Overcrowding at jail criticised
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Too many inmates are living in "dreadful conditions" at  Perth Prison, an inspector's report concludes.
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A retiring governor launches a scathing attack on the way the prison service is run.
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Plans to increase the time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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A watchdog group has found that the District's psychiatric facility is seriously understaffed and overcrowded.
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Inmates in the Ecuadorian capital's largest prison took 180 visitors hostage Wednesday to protest what they called overcrowding, poor conditions and long sentences, a prison official said.
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California's troubled prison system was dealt a setback Tuesday when a judge ruled the state cannot ease its severe overcrowding by transferring inmates elsewhere.
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A judge seeks a solution for a 'public nuisance of a major kind' who repeatedly breaks an anti-social behaviour order.
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Opposition to Government proposals to locate the Central Mental Hospital in the new Mountjoy prison complex escalated today. The Irish College of Psychiatrists joined the Stateâs mental health watchdog, patients
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A man at the centre of a row about prison overcrowding is sentenced to four years for child sex offences.
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Prison officials and Home Secretary John Reid will meet to draw up plans to deal with prison overcrowding.
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Immigrant families, many with small children, are being kept in jail-like conditions in Texas and Pennsylvania, according to advocacy groups that say the Texas facility is inhumane and should be shut down.
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A prison inspection discovers "startling" levels of inmates crowded into  Aberdeen prison.
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Ministry reveals releases under government scheme to cut jail overcrowding
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A fight broke out among inmates in a prison yard Friday, injuring 18 prisoners, three of them critically, prison officials said.
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A federal judge on Monday gave California officials six months to ease crowding in the nation's largest prison system, warning that court-ordered remedies could include limiting the inmate population and releasing some prisoners early.
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Media & professional: Child jails staff 'may use move to inflict more pain'.
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Inmates are reaching the end of their sentences but cannot be freed because they haven't attended treatment programmes.