The justices didn’t squash precedent that opens federal officials up to paying damages, but they failed to expand its ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Critics say the jail’s cage-like enclosures constitute a form of solitary confinement that exacerbates mental illness and ...

In May, around 7,300 inmates were held in 5,235 cells - an occupancy rate of 141%, figures from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service showed. Including standby accommodation, the occupancy rate ...

More than 200 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in Karachi, Pakistani, after they were moved out of their cells due to earthquake tremors, officials said.

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 ...

Prisons. At a Missouri Prison, Inmates Fear for Their Lives in Sweltering Cells Without air conditioning, inmates are "literally trapped in a burning hot cell," according to a new lawsuit.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes signed on in support of federal legislation that would allow states to use cell phone jamming systems in prisons.

CoreCivic, through its Leavenworth prison, wants to hold up to 1,000 detained immigrants. The United States does not have enough prison cells to meet mass deportation promise.

In the Mexican series Prison Cell 211, as a lawyer gets stuck in a prison riot, it’s hard to defend anyone when you’re the one getting murdered.