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.

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.

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

A Colorado woman was sentenced to four years in prison after she used fake credentials to get government jobs as a psychologist.

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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.

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

Israel struck Iran’s most notorious prison in its latest airstrikes Monday, as dramatic footage showed a missile slamming into its entrance.

Israel’s military struck entrances to the detention facility in Tehran, where dissidents and political prisoners are held. Human rights groups say the prison is a symbol of repression.

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is seeking to cancel $500 million for a planned federal prison on a former mine in Eastern Kentucky.