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 ...

The prison officials discovered the cat sneaking over a barbed wire fence, according to video posted online Ministry of Justice and Peace via Storyful Prison officials in Costa Rica caught an ...

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon ...

Recent escalating prison violence has been described as "out of control" by a union boss amid three separate attacks which have left five officers injured. Steve Gillan, general secretary of the ...

PUBLIC SHAME. AND WHAT THIS ALL MIGHT MEAN. TODAY, HE WAS SENTENCED TO THREE AND A HALF TO SEVEN YEARS IN STATE PRISON. FORMER SENIOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL JESSIE O’NEILL TELLS US ...

The couple met and got married while in a Texas prison, where the "Tiger King" star is currently serving 22 years in prison for two counts of murder-for-hire and other animal-related crimes ...

Still, Garcia Casique remains in the Terrorism Confinement Center, the maximum-security prison in El Salvador known by its Spanish acronym CECOT, cut off from the rest of the world. Federal ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom today called for the closure of another prison in his new budget proposal, which would be the fifth facility closed under his watch, though he didn’t specify which institution ...