But inside the prison chapel, there's silence only disrupted by laughter between friends or affirmations about redemption, ...

A Rockford federal jury on Wednesday convicted a former employee at the Federal Correctional Institution in Thomson of sexually abusing two male inmates.

The ruling directly conflicts with a Trump order requiring transgender inmates to be housed according to their assigned sex ...

Condemned California prisoners reportedly watch pornography on taxpayer-funded tablets meant for education, according to ...

Violence, mayhem and chess-playing hostages all elements of a wacky, behind-bars uprising that snagged national headlines, TV ...

The Herald tours a little-known Sydney prison where things are done differently  Inmates are called “participants”, and many ...

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Michelle Molver, 30, is accused of using maximum-security HMP Belmarsh — known as the U.K.’s Guantanamo Bay — as her own ...

Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection Thursday, reinforcing Texas’ position as the nation's leader in capital ...

Sexual violence by Israeli prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators against Palestinian detainees is “widespread,” ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan and two guards have been sued, with the lawsuit saying a man was killed by a cellmate ...

Inside a newsroom tucked within Nash Correctional Institution’s massive printing plant, incarcerated journalists gather story ...