Since when does a criminal’s right to make a ... the Mail paints a forensic picture of what a supermax jail in Britain would look like. When Robert Hood, the former warden of ADX Florence ...

A man who "genuinely believed" he was going to be murdered in prison and it be made to look like a suicide attempt took a ...

If you're a history buff, you may have heard of the Historic Squirrel Cage Jail in Council Bluffs. It was a unique way to keep prisoners behind bars in the late 1800s. It is also the largest rotating ...

A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped has been arrested and accused of helping facilitate the breakout, officials said Tuesday.

Jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and Jackson, Mississippi, don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when ...

Located on an island off the coast of San Francisco, Alcatraz has been shut for decades. But now Donald Trump says he wants it to house the country's "most ruthless criminals".

"Try to think of the most troubled girls from high school, and then imagine 400 of them stuck together, in a place that is ...

Sterling Williams' attorney said he was not threatened into helping the inmates escape and that he was simply the maintenance worker on duty the night of the plot.

Hundreds of local, state and federal authorities are scrambling to find seven inmates who bolted out of a New Orleans jail ...

We're getting a look ... jail. "We understand people make mistakes, and they end up here, but to land in a place like this, we’re talking about a max security inmate. That’s why she’s in a ...

Why are prisoners who most of us would regard as psychotic or psychopathic allowed access to deadly materials – materials ...