California prisons will make more use of canine searches on visitors and staff as they attempt to stem the flow of drugs and ...

The Terrorism Confinement Center was designed to be a black hole. When Nayib Bukele’s flagship “megaprison”—known as CECOT, ...

A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Thursday over the death of Joshua Botwinski, 43, at Waupun Correctional Institution ...

Richard Matt, a convicted murderer with a history of attempting to escape from prison, was at the center of the infamous ...

Meanwhile, Daniel Troya, Ricardo Sanchez and 19 other federal inmates are fighting a transfer from Indiana to a 'supermax' ...

Former prison officials are sounding the alarm about moving maximum custody inmates to close custody but the Arizona prisons director is defending the practice.

Officials at the Martin Correctional Institution have reported several incidents involving drones dropping off contraband at the prison.

A retired FBI expert says the New Orleans jail escape exposes critical staffing shortage and other issues after 10 inmates escaped on Friday, May 16.

The recent violence at a Tucson prison involving inmates beating up another inmate with padlocks has the wife of a prisoner concerned for his safety.

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that ...

Not long after a study was completed outlining the need for more prison beds for male offenders, the South Dakota Legislature ...

France will build a new high-security prison in its overseas ... newspaper that the prison would target organised crime "at all levels" of the drug supply chain. The €400m (£337m) facility ...