The committee raised concerns about several safety issues in prisons, including escapes and the unnatural deaths of inmates.

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has revealed the staggering scale of illicit trade within the national prison ...

After Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’ call to jam cellphone signals at Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, the Department of Correctional Services said the prison is among five prisons identified ...

SÃO PAULO—A Brazilian gang founded in the country’s violent prisons is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest criminal organizations, reshaping global cocaine flows from South America to Europe’s ...

They call themselves “Unforgiven forever, forever unforgiven.” A secretive prison gang operating deep inside Florida’s correctional system, built on loyalty, silence, and violence. Members follow ...

FLORENCE, AZ — Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) officials say several inmates were injured during a group fight at a state prison in Florence over the weekend. The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man who killed a 17-year-old girl to keep her quiet about a bank robbery was attacked in a private prison by members of a street gang looking to exact revenge, according ...

Minister of Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald has taken aim at inmates involved in smuggling phones and other ...

The imprisoned Mexican Mafia kingpin accused of calling the shots for Southern California’s sprawling “gang of gangs” oversaw everything from drug dealing and kidnappings to murder from his cell ...

The leader of the Chicago street gang Four Corner Hustlers has been sentenced to life in prison for racketeering conspiracy charges involving multiple murders. Labar Spann, 47, was convicted in ...

Reputed Four Corner Hustlers boss Labar “Bro Man” Spann spent years as a powerful figure in the upper echelon of Chicago’s underworld, a kingpin who used fear, violence and murder to control West Side ...