And the state needs a smaller, more modern prison to house and rehabilitate women who committed serious crimes. The existing ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Maggots and mice have fallen onto inmates' dining tables at a California state prison where holes in the roof also allow rain and bird droppings to seep through and streak ...

He said the provincial government has reached an understanding with the company tasked with building the prison, New Avalon Corrections Partners, to go to the next stage of the process.

Today, we're looking at what life has been like for the men detained by federal immigration authorities at a Leavenworth prison and and concerned about conditions there ...

Authorities probing the prison death of defrocked priest John Geoghan say his killer was fellow inmate Joseph Druce, a convicted murderer with a long-standing hatred of homosexuals. Officials say ...

New suspects have been named and new details have arisen surrounding the case of an ex-La Tuna prison employee charged with bribery and sexual abuse.

The six fiberglass dioramas depict painstakingly detailed scenes of how Ai Weiwei spent his days while locked up by the Chinese government.

“Today’s confirmation of $24 million in funding will allow the Department of Corrections to complete detailed design and planning work for the construction of additional prison beds at ...

With minimal discussion, the Arkansas Board of Corrections unanimously approved a contract on Tuesday night with the company who will design the state’s controversial new prison.

Design, of course, can solve many of these problems, but unfortunately, too often those who commission prisons—from counties to cities to states to the private prison industry—are more focused ...

Steven Johnson, who escaped from prison in 1994 while on a work detail, was arrested in Macon, Ga., on Tuesday. He had been living there since 2011 and had assumed the identity of a dead child.

Problems with food preparation, hand-washing and food-safety training were cited as the cause of two large, multi-serotype Salmonella outbreaks at Arkansas prisons in August of 2012, according to ...