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 ...

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.

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 ...

Riot linked to disputed election results Justice Minister claims riot started inside prison, unrelated to outside protests Over 1,500 escaped, 150 recaptured; rise in crime expected, police ...

President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP) Death row inmates Robert Bowers, from left, the gunman who massacred 11 worshippers ...

A 20-year-old man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the slaying of a popular skateboarder during an attempted drug robbery three years ago. Essonie “Soni” Lennon was convicted in July ...