Local residents have voiced opposition for a number of reasons, including the shuttered prison’s history of violence and ...

A contract to reopen a privately owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered ...

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, one of the world's most notorious drug lords, built an empire on power, fear, and strategic ...

The Tokyo District Court Tachikawa Branch sentenced the defendant, unemployed Kyota Hattori, 26, to the prison term for attempted murder and arson of a Keio Line ... in his cell phone company ...

CoreCivic, through its Leavenworth prison, wants to hold up to 1,000 detained immigrants. The United States does not have ...

A wildcat strike by New York state prison guards has stretched into a third week, prompting officials to start firing workers ...

PTSD, depression, anxiety and social isolation continue to haunt former inmates of prison cells long after release.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said that early reports suggested “extremely disturbing conduct” leading to the death of Messiah Nantwi, 22 ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

Carla Bruni, 57, wows in hot pants as she reveals her surprising new hobby of pole dancing as the former first lady shows off ...

was pronounced dead last month after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Auburn Correctional Facility amid the ongoing labor strike, although it is unclear if prison staffing played a ...