When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Russia has released an American teacher imprisoned over what his family said was prescribed medical marijuana, but several ...

A coroner has issued a Prevention of Future Deaths report in which he warned that more people could die at a Nottinghamshire ...

By Dan Pool, Editor [email protected] Over the years, several Georgia prison inmates have sent letters to this newspaper. Some are Pickens residents now incarcerated, and others may pick ...

The 23-year-old made a sling from a pair of trousers that he attached to the bottom of a catering van for his escape in a move even the Met acknowledged showed ‘ingenuity’ ...

The attorney for the man accused of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur said his client was “ambushed” inside the jail. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 61, was ...

SAN DIEGO — The family of a man who died several months after he was beaten into a coma in a San Diego County jail has filed a ... was placed in a triple cell with two other inmates also ...

The Nova Scotia Police Review Board overstepped its authority by trying to close a disciplinary hearing to the public, according to lawyers for Halifax's police chief and the mother of a man who died ...