There are five degrees of prison security in the United States and it dictates nearly every facet of a prisoner's life inside.

Ten inmates at a New Orleans jail surreptitiously cut through cell walls using electric hair trimmers before fleeing into the ...

Officials say Stateville’s budget has stayed relatively level because of an increase in the population of a reception center ...

An incarcerated man has died at Mule Creek State Prison during medical rounds, and the California Department of Corrections ...