Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained access to sites ...

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.

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.

A small watchdog agency over Ohio's adult and juvenile prisons would be drastically changed under the state budget bill.

In a news conference Tuesday, Jackley announced 24 inmates have been indicted on charges in connection to May 27 fights at the State Penitentiary that left 14 inmates injured. One of those inmates ...

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… ...

Shanteari Young, a Baltimore County daycare owner who shot her husband when she learned he was sexually abusing children, has been released from prison.

Two of the four men convicted in the shooting death of a teen were sentenced to prison on Wednesday.

Staffers in Washington's only women's prison repeatedly used excessive force, according to a report from the state's Office of the Corrections Ombuds.

Former corrections officers Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad became the ninth and 10th individuals charged in connection with alleged sexual abuse at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin.