An inspection in 2002, had found the prison in a state of nearcrisis. The Department at that time seemed to have no grasp of the notion that the imprisonment of women must be based upon a women-centred philosophy, taking account of their social backgro...
They cock a snook at the jail security, literally. With Lucknow District Jail having become an open territory where visitors come and go as and when they feel like, prisoners are getting their cake and eating it too. In this instance, of course, what w...
bangalore: love in the backyard of crime. so much so that many of the jailbirds have become life partners. some, when both were still behind bars. this is bangalore central jail. love, it seems, is all around. jail authorities say that over the last fe...
According to research there were 53 registered sex offenders living in Dothan, Alabama in early 2007. The ratio of number of residents in Dothan to the number of sex offenders is 1180 to 1. The number of registered sex offenders compared t...
Maximum security institution Established 1977 Address 5 Butterfly Valley Road, Kowloon Capacity 960 Types of Prisoners Male adult persons who are : (a) prisoner on remand in any category; (b) judge...
Minimum security institution Established 1984 Now functions as a Pre-release Vocational Training Centre for adult prisoners Hei Ling Chau Island Capacity 252 Prisoners Male adult prisoners who undergo pre-rele...
Training centre Established 1958 123 Cape Collinson Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong Capacity 192 Type of Prisoners Male offenders aged between 14 and 21, ordered by court to undergo the training centre programme for an ind...
Stanley Prison is still operational and houses the most hardened of criminals from the Hong Kong Justice System. There is a Correctional Services Museum at the entrance to the prison.
Chinese law does not provide basic safeguards to protect prisoners against torture. The law only guarantees access to a lawyer in cases where detainees are prosecuted under the criminal law. Even in such cases, there is no provision in law for access t...
Perhaps the most inhuman act that society commits against prisoners is the blatant disregard for their rights. The thought that prisoners have human rights escapes most people. While part of a prisoner\'s punishment is deprivation of certain civil right...
It will come as no surprise to anyone that Indonesia has imprisoned large amounts of Papuans during its occupation of West Papua. Kept in terrible conditions, prisoners are often tortured and many ...
G-Division is the highest security section of the entire prison system. It accommodates the most notorious and dangerous prisoners and those protectees who are considered in need of constant supervision. Yatala also is the base of the Prisoner Assessme...
Villawood Detention Centre is located in Sydney, N.S.W. Human rights have been violently breached in the Villawood Detention Centre. Private security guards employed by Australian Correction Management\'s deportation service section have used batons and...
The mission of the Metropolitan Detention Center is to protect the public and provide a safe and secure environment of both inmates and staff under the Principles of Direct Supervision and in accordance with the American Correctional Association (ACA) ...
The Nauru detention centre is an asylum seeker detention and processing centre on the tiny island nation of Nauru. It is fully funded by the Australian government, and has housed people detained under the Pacific Solution since the Tampa affair in 2001...
The Long Bay Prison Complex has been the site of Sydney\'s major metropolitan gaol for ninety years. The prison is situated on the once isolated Malabar peninsular. The Aboriginal Reserve and Coast Hospital for Infectious Diseases (later know as P...
The construction of the prison began in 1891 and was completed in 1895. The prison served its purpose for a century until it was finally shut down in November 1st 1996. The Pudu Prison is open to the public. There\'s a little museum and you can catch a ...
There are 332 refugees imprisoned in Baxter detention centre; 173 are awaiting deportation. The detention centre is 10 kilometres out of Port Augusta, past an army base and inside two tall and imposing electric fences.
The news that Singapore plans to demolish the infamous Changi Prison has stirred up anger among some of those who suffered under Japanese imprisonment there during World War Two. But others argue the old buildings are meaningless.