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 ...

A Washington female inmate is suing corrections officials, alleging a male-born prisoner attacked her under the state's gender-identity housing policy.

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 ...

A fight at the Eyman prison in Florence left multiple people injured and one in critical condition.

Oregon has agreed to a $295,000 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by an incarcerated transgender woman who was subjected to abuse while housed in a state men’s prison. Zera Lola ...

Inmates have been evacuated from a prison building in Suffolk after a fire broke out. The county's fire service said it sent 10 crews to Highpoint Prison near Stradishall at 14:40 BST, with two ...

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