Standing before this imposing stone fortress, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was voluntarily walking into the Pennsylvania equivalent of the Twilight Zone. The imposing stone facade of the Old Jail ...

It is the hardest when things go sideways, when there is inmate strife, or you cross an uncrossable line. Nowhere is safe, calm, or convenient. You might need protection just to hit the head. Mealtime ...

Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL) describes what he saw inside Florida’s controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration ...

Under the Assad regime, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine; ‘a symbol of shame for the whole world’ ...

Brian Koehn, a Marine Corps veteran and former warden, is leading a movement to transform the criminal justice system with ...

President Donald Trump on July 1 toured the 5,000-bed immigration detention center being built on 39 square miles in ...

A London PhD student exposed as serial rapist who drugged his victims and filmed the sickening attacks as trophies has been jailed for life. Zhenhao Zou, 28, preyed on women on dating apps and social ...

Charles Williams' debut feature is a difficult but deeply penetrating story that defies the most obvious tropes of its genre.

The cell block was freezing, and the constant fear of roaches crawling inside his ears caused him to keep his clothes, boots, and lights on.

Bella May Culley, 18, could face up to 20 years or life imprisonment in Tbilisi Prison No. 5 in Georgia for drug smuggling.

Inside the UK's broken prison system where tinkering around the edges will no longer work Sky News lead politics presenter Sophy Ridge went behind the barbed-wire-topped walls of Preston Prison to ...

PERCHED on a rocky island a mile out to sea from San Francisco looms the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. One of the world’s most infamous prisons, it was built for the worst of the worst ...