Despite promises to improve the system, problems within prisons keep mounting. Critics say the Dominican Republic continues to push for pretrial detentions in cases where no charges have been filed.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to help families hoping to expand their families through in vitro fertilization by reducing costs for the procedure.

The actor, on a hot streak after “Wicked,” takes on his biggest stage role to date. In London, he plays Shakespeare’s ...

The first of up to 390 prisoners are being released early in the latest attempt to ease overcrowding in Scotland's jails.

Hundreds of prisoners will be freed in Scotland as part of a broader emergency response to ease the burden of overcrowded ...

The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.

As an interim report by former justice secretary David Gauke lays bare how a move to long sentencing has contributed to a ...

While successive governments have tried to show they were "tough on crime" it has resulted in prisons being on the "brink of ...

Short sentences and recall periods are keeping offenders in a longer cycle of going to jail, LBC has heard, as we went behind ...

Lead DCI Harry Virdee (Staz Nair) had survived a deranged campaign of murder from a past enemy, but at what cost? His wife Saima (Aysha Kala) no longer trusts him, and he’s now even more indebted to ...

Films warn about gangs Young men and women in Scotland’s HMP & YOI Polmont are making films to warn young people about ...