One inmate was behind bars for murdering two men. Another was charged with domestic abuse involving strangulation. A third was accused of attacking a corrections officer.

The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had previously been cited by federal authorities.

In June 2025, the new album Bending the Bars — produced by the prison abolitionist group Community Hotline for Incarcerated ...

Inmates and prison officers are farming commercial quantities of fresh food in a purpose-built indoor facility. One of the 400 male offenders in maximum security at Macquarie contacted me with the ...

I was entering ­Britain’s most notorious prison with its huge stone walls ... surrounded by men with “Mars bars” – scars. READ MORE: Duncan Ferguson: I told David Beckham to f*** off ...

Weird little Merrie Melodies short about the fun times to be had in prison. No one's playing hide the soap here so don't get excited. It's basically just showing the convicts lounging around and ...

We have lived on opposite sides of prison bars. One of us spent 22 years incarcerated for a nonviolent drug offense. The other dedicated over 20 years of career service in maximum and medium ...

“I’ve taught in prison. I’ve written about prison ... “Four lucky inmates will get the chance to go behind bars to dine and spend the night in Provincetown Jail with John Waters,” it teased. “After a ...

This noise is distracting to most, yet I use it to write operas from a prison cell. Nothing about me says “opera ... I slowly walked from the bars, past the desk, and to the window that faced a brick ...

A Virginia woman whose embezzlement nearly bankrupted the nation’s preeminent advocacy organization for American prisoners of war will serve time behind bars and pay restitution to the group ...