Sweden’s prison population could increase to more than 30,000 in the coming decades.
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Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
What people believe about choice and responsibility shapes what they think prison is for.
Budget 2026 spends $503 million on expanding prisons. But 41% of the prison population are people on remand and more than half are released once their case is heard.
Many jails and prisons are dependent on incarcerated labor to keep costs low.
The Adelaide Remand Centre furore has reignited Australia’s private prison debate. Are they managed as well as state-run services?
Pennsylvania’s patchwork of ICE detention centers makes it difficult to track loved ones.
Arguing that confining and treating people against their will is ‘compassionate’ greatly expands the role of policing in medical matters, often with few limits.
Characteristics that would come to define Mau Mau camps – neglect, forced labour and ill-health – were ingrained long before 1952.
Every state and territory must have these programs, but as was recently revealed in New South Wales, they’re often ineffective. There are better ways.
While accused Bondi gunman Naveed Akram’s case is among the worst of the worst, his severe incarceration has a flow-on effect to non-violent inmates nationally.
A standard definition of recidivism would make it possible to identify what works to reduce reoffending.
Supervised injection sites in prisons are not universally accepted by correctional officers.
Prison conditions should comply with human rights obligations and avoid cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment of prisoners.
The term ‘chaplain’ does not have a legal definition in the US at the federal or state level.
The idea of implaning microchips under offenders’ skin raising serious questions.
Incarcerating people who use drugs is associated with increased overdose deaths after release and high rate of recidivism.
Inside one of Australia’s maximum-security prisons, inmates and prison officers have created an indoor farm, growing herbs and leafy greens for the on-site café.
For the more than 3 million Americans on probation or parole, rules and regulations often serve as hidden traps to reincarceration.
New Zealand jails more people per capita than Canada, Australia and England. But sentencing Act changes will contribute to a 40% rise in prisoner numbers over the next decade.
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Senior Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Criminology, University of Bath
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Professor, The University of Western Australia
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