Scottish Prison Service A probe is underway after a woman spent the night in a maximum-security prison in Scotland when police kept her there for having supposedly “masculine features.” ...

I started volunteering at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (New York State’s only maximum security prison for women) in 2002. My younger son had just set off to kindergarten, and I had ...

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

Elizabeth Otieno Ayuma has been incarcerated at Lang’ata Women Maximum Security Prison in Nairobi, Kenya for more than seven years. She was sentenced to death in October 2017, a charge that sat ...

The Ada County Prosecutor's Office asked a judge to enter an order designating Scott Stevens as "dangerously mentally ill," according to court filings obtained by the Idaho Statesman.

"He was killed by the judicial and prison system," they wrote in a letter to IDOC and the sentencing judge in their son's DUI case. "Worst of all, he feared that he would not survive prison, and ...

The Hochul administration will close two upstate New York maximum security prisons citing a continuing overall drop in the incarcerated population, cost savings, staffing shortages and ...

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, ... which centers women seeking justice for their sons who had been victims of police brutality.

Local News Five correction officers injured at maximum-security prison in Mass. Two officers were stabbed by inmates, the Department of Correction said, and three more were injured Wednesday evening.

Elizabeth Otieno Ayuma has been incarcerated at Lang’ata Women Maximum Security Prison in Nairobi, Kenya for more than seven years. She was sentenced to death in October 2017, a charge that sat ...

Guests and incarcerated men sit alongside each other at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility's first-ever film festival on Oct. 24. (Tsering Bista/NPR) At the Sing Sing maximum security prison ...