Peru moved 30 gang-linked inmates out of its Trujillo prison after a riot killed three. What the move means for extortion, ...

KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has warned that prisons are becoming “breeding grounds” for crime and gangs, saying offenders can enter prison with little ...

Prison gangs are using HIV infection by rape as punishment in a grim ritual known as ”slow puncture”, the Jali Commission heard on Wednesday. Director of the office of the judicial inspectorate of ...

The inner workings of gangs within prisons have been laid bare before the Madlanga Commission. Makgothi Thobakgale testified at the Madlanga Commission about weaknesses within his department, mostly ...

Almost a quarter of inmates at the crumbling Strangeways tested positive for drugs with organised crime groups "operating with impunity". The Manchester prison was labelled "appalling" and one of the ...

KwaZulu-Natal police chief lieutenant-general Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has warned that SA’s correctional facilities may be perpetuating the country’s gang problem, describing prisons as “breeding grounds” ...

Some street gang members deliberately commit crimes to get themselves arrested and placed behind bars when violence between rival gangs escalates, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry heard on Thursday, ...

On April 6 this year, a clash among inmates inside Mandoli jail left a 22-year-old murder accused seriously injured. Three months later, the Delhi government’s Anti-Corruption Branch arrested 11 ...

Special Forces and army units take part in an operation to seize control of the maximum-security Renovacion I prison in Escuintla, Guatemala. (EPA Images pic) Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo ...

Ministers have been urged to investigate a surge in white prisoners being forced to convert to Islam by Muslim gangs. Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data show that one in five Muslims in prisons in England ...