Adolfo Macias Villamar, known across Latin America by the alias "Fito", was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday, ...

Ecuador ‘s most wanted fugitive, a gang leader and drug-lord known as Fito, was captured after hiding out in a bunker underneath a house.

Heiner Lauterbach looks back on his prison experience in his younger years, which he says was 'incredibly helpful' ...

Staff at Barwon Prison extinguished a fire in a prisoner’s cell on Saturday afternoon. It’s understood prison workers discovered the fire about 2pm. The team acted quickly and extinguished the ...

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia offers exactly that raw, unfiltered connection to the past – a crumbling cathedral of correction that draws visitors from every corner of Pennsylvania and ...

Staff at Barwon Prison extinguished a fire in a prisoner’s cell on Saturday afternoon. It’s understood prison workers discovered the fire about 2pm. The team acted quickly and extinguished the ...

Staff at Barwon Prison extinguished a fire in a prisoner’s cell on Saturday afternoon. It’s understood prison workers discovered the fire about 2pm. The team acted quickly and extinguished the ...

Unrest in a prison northeast of Nashville has been contained, the sheriff says, and all prisoners returned to their cells after officers sprayed chemical agents into the prison yard.

More than 200 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in Karachi, Pakistani, after they were moved out of their cells due to earthquake tremors, officials said.

In May, around 7,300 inmates were held in 5,235 cells - an occupancy rate of 141%, figures from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service showed. Including standby accommodation, the occupancy rate ...