In Brazil, an inmates escape attempt went wrong when he got stuck in a prison wall. Firefighters had to drill him out safely after wardens spotted strange movement.

When Yoshie Shiratori was locked up in Japan's notorious Abashiri prison in 1943, the guards were well aware of his ...

On June 9, Mr. Groves’s girlfriend, Darriana Burton, 28, of New Orleans, was arrested on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit simple escape in connection with the jailbreak, the authorities said.

FILE - An exhibit about a 1962 prison escape made famous in the movie, Escape from Alcatraz, is exhibited in the new cell house museum store on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, California ...

INDIANAPOLIS | The outmoded design of the nearly 150-year-old Indiana State Prison played a key role in the escape of three inmates last month, a state Department of Correction official ...