More than two years after the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students shocked the rural community of Moscow, ...

Nova Scotia resident Lisa Adams was kept for 16 days in a solitary room with no running water or flushing toilet under ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has decided to let prisons and jails keep charging high prices for ...

Claims about a brain implant technology that compresses prison sentences into minutes are based on a concept, not actual ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Sergei Tikhanovsky was kept isolated in bare, tiny cells and tells the BBC that Belarus must free other political prisoners.

Critics say the jail’s cage-like enclosures constitute a form of solitary confinement that exacerbates mental illness and ...

"My Dad is 57 and was in and out of prison for years. He still eats with his hand clutched around the utensil and hovers his ...

An inmate at Gwanda Prison, Tiisetso Ngulube (56), who is serving time for assault, had a year added to his jail time after he was convicted for drug dealing while in prison.Ngulube was jointly ...

Authorities in Ecuador have recaptured fugitive drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías, also known as “Fito,” more than a year after his prison escape.

Ecuador’s most wanted fugitive, Jose Adolfo Macias, also known as Fito, has been re-arrested more than a year after he ...

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia offers exactly that raw, unfiltered connection to the past – a crumbling cathedral of correction that draws visitors from every corner of Pennsylvania and ...