A week-long French prison strike sparked by a spate of inmate attacks on guards looks set to enter a second week after unions on Saturday rejected proposals to end the standoff. A solution to the ...

This morning, the third California prison strike in two years has supposedly begun, with hunger strikes by prisoners in solitary confinement and work stoppage by prisoners in the general population.

French police fired tear gas to break up a picket line of striking prison guards at Europe’s biggest jail on Friday, as a fresh assault by inmates on staff at a facility in Corsica fuelled demands for ...

Overtime spending by state agencies jumped nearly 23% compared to the prior year. New York state agencies spent more than $1.6 billion on overtime pay in 2025, marking a nearly 23% jump from the prior ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A California inmate has died in solitary confinement amid a system-wide hunger strike protesting living conditions in those cells, prison activists announced. Prison officials said ...

California prison protest features in Emmy Award winning film ...

French prison guards blockaded facilities across the country on Monday, with 14 of 17 prisons in the Hauts-de-France region shut down in protest at chronic overcrowding and staff shortages, in a ...

Prison officers are taking Labour to court over its refusal to restore their right to strike over pay and rising violence. Mark Fairhurst, the national chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association ...