Women in prison are four times as likely to report having been raped in their lifetime than those who are not incarcerated ...

The four-year graduation rate for Iowa’s public high school class of 2024 was 88.3%, slightly higher than the rate of the previous year’s graduating class, new data from the Iowa Department of ...

Critics of the US criminal justice system have often pointed to the “tough on crime” politics originating during the Nixon ...

According to PrisonPolicy.org, the number of people incarcerated has increased since the pandemic, despite crime rates being ...

The number of American children and teenagers in juvenile detention has sharply declined over the last few decades, but as ...

El Salvador currently holds the highest incarceration rate in the world, with over 1,000 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants as of 2024, according to World Prison Brief. This staggering figure ...

Australia has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. On average, Australians live to see their 83rd birthday. But ...

Vatican City has the smallest railway in the world. It has just two short tracks (about 300 meters long), and the station is ...

"The United States is now a world leader when it comes to incarceration," Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and co-author ...

Bukele is one of the more successful examples of the global wave of elected authoritarians eroding democratic norms. Few other practitioners of this authoritarian playbook are as popular at home. Not ...

However, holidaymakers might want to think twice before booking their summer trips, as the Atlantic Ocean island group has one of the world's highest murder rates. The archipelago recorded 103 ...

MUMBAI: Granting bail to a rape accused who was behind bars for over five years, Justice Milind Jadhav of Bombay high court said each day's incarceration in prison amounts to a change in ...