Las Vegas Valley residents continue to raise concerns over an expansion of a “maximum-security facility” for inmates with ...

Authorities say 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet. Seven of them are still on ...

Authorities say 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet. Eight of the escapees ...

As a trial looms for the man accused of killing the 19-year-old in a hate crime, Laureano's mother seeks answers — and ...

Alcatraz closed in 1963 because it was too costly to operate — three times more costly than any other federal prison. It's not coming back.

Sitting on a couch in her home in Maracay, Venezuela, Mirelis Cacique López watches her son Francisco Javier García Cacique ...

A recent class action lawsuit from the MacArthur Justice Center sheds light on how extreme heat creates life-threatening ...

In a bombshell decision, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic slashed the Menendez brothers’ original ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American ...

Inmates at the Bismarck state prison launched a podcast, Chainz to Changed, focusing on life in prison and preparing for ...

In 1933, the Justice Department took over the island and made it a maximum-security federal penitentiary ... make escape a ...