This would mean selected high-risk inmates would leave their cell only when ... having a frontline prison officer murdered on duty," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Security measures ...

Initial reports from within the prison indicate that an object, likely a bomb, was lobbed into Okah’s cell through the open window bars. An explosion rocked the Maximum Security Custodial Centre ...

The inmate was found unresponsive in his cell this morning at The Midlands Prison, in Portlaoise, Co Laois. It is believed that the prisoner died from a suspected overdose. However, the official ...

Riverside County jails are plagued with some of the nation's highest murder rates and repeated security failures, an ...

Border czar Tom Homan defended sending "designated terrorists" to prisons like the one in El Salvador, saying that the "travesties" he’s seen during his decades-long career in border security ...

A security supervisor of a correctional facility in Phoenix who sexually abused an inmate was sentenced to more than a year in prison and 10 years of supervised release, the U.S. Department of ...

The prisoner, who is understood to be in his 30s, was found unresponsive in his cell at the medium-security prison in Portlaoise on Sunday morning. Multiple investigations have now been launched ...

Italy's first-ever sex room for prisoners went into operation on Friday, when an inmate was allowed a visit from his female partner in a special facility at a jail in the central Umbria region.

Johnson State Prison is a medium-security prison on Donovan Harrison Road, Wrightsville. It can hold 1612 inmates, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.