Nearly 1,000 jobs were lost at two New York prisons that closed in November, but a new report shows most of the workers moved into other state jobs.

MICHIGAN CITY — Sentencing is scheduled for an Indiana State Prison inmate who suddenly agreed to serve life without parole ...

After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering attacks on ...

ABC News' Linsey Davis discusses the documentary "I am Ready, Warden," which follows a death row inmate, with Smriti Mundhra ...

Shocking numbers of prisoners are dying “needlessly” in Scotland’s crisis-hit jails, it has been claimed, after more than 50 ...

Evin prison CCTV CCTV footage of a cell for trans inmates in Evin prison was leaked in 2020 - it is similar to the cells in the main women's wing It is where the British-Iranian citizen Nazanin ...

A murder inquiry is underway after a prisoner was allegedly pushed off a balcony to his death. Lewis Spence, 28, who was ...

At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country’s police chief said, as widespread post-election riots and ...

LEAKESVILLE, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Corrections, with the help of other authorities, has located an inmate who escaped the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in ...

President Joe Biden commuted the federal death sentences of 37 inmates Monday, including three North Carolina inmates ...

The decision leaves three federal inmates to face execution ... the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

More than 1,000 prisoners are being crammed into cells on bunk beds or mattresses on the floor and many are forced to use toilets in front of each other. The overcrowding has led to heightened ...