A prison governor accused of attacking and strangling an inmate has appeared in court. Richard Dowdell was charged with two offences in relation to allegedly attacking the prisoner at HMP Swaleside in ...

Prosecutors said Saturday that 21 suspects in a series of coordinated attacks on French prisons had been charged, including two teenagers. French anti-terror ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too ...

Utica, N.Y. — One of the 10 New York state corrections officers indicted in the fatal beating of an inmate in a Central New York prison pleaded guilty Monday. The corrections officer ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Four Romanian men were sentenced to time in federal prison for committing odometer fraud in Nebraska and in neighboring states. In a release from the Department of Justice ...

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he is ordering the reopening of Alcatraz, a shuttered prison on an island in San Francisco Bay. The president said he will be directing the Federal ...

A female prison officer in the UK has been accused of having sexual relationships with two inmates at the same time and plotting with them to smuggle drugs into the jail. Isabelle Dale ...