Wakefield prison officer Alex Dyson was the first at the scene when Andrew Light attacked Sarah Payne killer Roy Whiting, ...

"This building’s architecture tells one story. But its human history tells another— and we need to confront both," said ...

A former Fulton County jail guard has been indicted on federal civil rights charges after prosecutors said she used her Taser abusively against three inmates and then lied to cover it up.

New Orleans artist and activist jackie sumell’s nonprofit, Freedom to Grow, takes a plant-powered approach to encourage ...

A job in a prison kitchen apparently helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief serving time for murder and rape, plot his ...

While only two escapees remain at large—convicted double murderer Derrick Groves and repeat escape artist Antoine ...

The Village Voice looks at four books that help navigate the black holes of Trump’s deceitful deportation and detention agenda.

Programs that train inmates outside prison walls have had success, though. Twelve minimum custody inmates graduated with ...

Authorities are investigating an Instagram photo showing a man who identifies himself as Antoine Massey, a fugitive still at large after escaping more than two weeks ago from a New Orleans ...

A flake of blue paint flutters and falls from the bars of the jail cell door as it swings open with ... what’s being prepared in the steel pots sitting on the stoves barely resembles food.

Massey also claimed in the video that he had been “let out” of jail. Footage and images released by authorities show inmates yanking open a faulty cell door, removing a toilet and crawling through a ...