The Haarlem Koepelgevangenis ("dome prison") is just one of three so-called panopticons in the Netherlands: circular prisons ...

We have pieced together accounts from multiple reliable sources to build a picture of everyday life for Nasim and other women, who are currently being held in Evin prison. Many were among the tens ...

BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted of instructing a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the institution. Daniel ...

It’s just one of the many precautions put in place for this course, one of the newest additions to prison and jail education ... proficient and making their life easier by integrating some ...

Brutal body camera footage shows a handcuffed inmate being beaten unconscious by prison guards before he ... inhumane act that senselessly took a life,” Martuscello said.

ACCORDING TO HIS ATTORNEY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AT HUNT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, EARLIER THIS MONTH, HECKER WAS SENTENCED TO MANDATORY LIFE IN PRISON FOR RAPING A TEENAGE BOY IN THE 1970S.

1:29 Mozambique protests: Police fire tear gas at biggest demonstration yet against disputed election At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on ...

LEAKESVILLE, Mississippi (WAPT) — Convicted murderer Drew Johnson, who escaped from a Mississippi state prison on Christmas ... Johnson is serving life for a murder in Rankin County.

Hundreds of inmates have escaped a prison riot in Mozambique's capital which has left 33 people dead and 15 injured. About 1,534 people managed to flee the jail in Maputo on Wednesday, but 150 of ...

In his latest act of clemency, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly every incarcerated person on federal death row Dec. 23, including a Buncombe County man convicted and sentenced ...