HMP Oakwood in Featherstone, near Wolverhampton The MoJ stated: "All visitors must prove their identity before entering the prison." ...

A former police officer shows students in London what life would be like inside a prison using mobile prison cells. The lesson opens the door to tough conversations, organizers say. CBS News' Tina ...

A wave of gang-related violence over the last decade has led to tougher laws and sentencing in Sweden pushing up the prison population. In May, around 7,300 inmates were held in 5,235 cells - an ...

More than 200 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi after they were temporarily moved out of their cells due to ...

If approved, the program will designate four adult prison facilities where at least 10% of the incarcerated population will be housed in single-occupancy cells. The measure passed the Assembly in ...

Dannuzio Patron, 38, attacked a correctional officer with an improvised weapon while officers were attempting to remove him from the prison cell via a tactical team. Courtesy photo California ...

The prison attack happened around 10 a.m. Wednesday during a cell extraction at the California Medical Facility (CMF) in Vacaville. Dannuzio Patron, 38, attacked a correctional officer with an ...

She was accompanied by David Gauke, a former Conservative Party politician, who had been asked by the government to draw up a plan for tackling Britain’s shortage of prison cells. On Thursday ...

The Montana State prison in deer lodge, houses over 1600 inmates. NBC Montana got an inside look at the facility — and what’s ...

Emergency measures have bought some time, but the government soon faces running out of prison cells, or a “total breakdown of law and order”, to quote Mahmood once more. The sentencing review ...

Criminals at a prison where some cells have been locked down during the day due to serious violence could pose an even higher risk to the public when released, their families have warned.