A New Stevenston killer serving life for the brutal murder of a security guard has had 13 months added to his jail term after ...

A convicted murderer who sought revenge on a prison officer who “left him to die” by having him “seriously assaulted” with a ...

In 2012 he was given another three years after a foiled escape attempt Paterson planned to escape from custody during a visit from Shotts Prison to Wishaw Hospital. But police were tipped off and ...

David McLean, 44, claimed he carried the weapon because he was scared the other male would attack him following a ...

Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday.

The notorious director of a brutal Iranian jail escaped just before airstrikes, after Israeli sources contacted his son with a warning: have your father open the prison doors, or he will be targeted.

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

The Supreme Court announced it will take up the case of a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards.

Saint Ansgar (20-7) faced Wapsie Valley (20-7) in a Class 1A substate finals matchup with a trip to the state tournament on the line.

As Donald Trump prepares to make good on his promise to deport possibly millions of undocumented immigrants, the private prison industry appears poised to cash in.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while he was incarcerated.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A proposed new men’s prison in Nebraska drew a $313 million bid from Hausmann Construction of Lincoln, Nebraska, the state Department of Corrections said. The… ...