Officials say they've completed the transfer of maximum security inmates to the prison north of Las Vegas. The Nevada Department of Corrections said Wednesday that nearly 2,000 offenders were ...

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

Psych patients treated in Idaho maximum security prison An Idaho law passed decades ago requires the state to house severe psychiatric patients within the maximum security prison because there ...

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited to judge the five entries.

Inside one of Australia’s maximum-security prisons, inmates and prison officers have created an indoor farm, growing herbs and leafy greens for the on-site café.

An abandoned maximum security prison in mid-Michigan would be put up for sale under a proposal from state lawmakers. The Standish Maximum Correctional Facility is a 604-bed prison sitting on ...

The state House has approved a plan to put an abandoned maximum security prison in mid-Michigan up for sale. The bill to authorize the sale of the state’s Standish Maximum Correctional Facility ...

Ely State Prison, which had previously served as the state’s maximum security institution, is now medium security. Over the course of several days, nearly 2,000 offenders were moved between the ...

The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, inaugurated a renovated maximum-security prison this Tuesday after it was reclaimed from the control of gangs that ordered murders and extortions from ...

CRANSTON – The locks on some prison cell doors in Maximum Security at the Adult Correctional Institutions are malfunctioning, “a real significant problem,” says the head of the correctional ...

Paul and Christy Akeo were released from a Mexican prison after 32 days, following allegations of defrauding a hospitality company. The couple's arrest stemmed from a timeshare contract dispute ...

Our experience of teaching neuroscience in a maximum-security prison Making our way through security each week is a slog, but teaching incarcerated people has been an incredible career experience.