Police in Papua New Guinea say the country’s overrun courts and prisons are behind mass breakouts from police custody. Chief ...

JEP EXCLUSIVE Button pressed, water starts to stream. It takes 43 seconds to fill up the 2-litre bottle and I have other three. — What you need that much water for, David, swim in it? A laugh follows, ...

David Navarro, who has spent a decade in and out of custody, uncovers allegations of prison officer corruption in a new ...

When Yoshie Shiratori was locked up in Japan's notorious Abashiri prison in 1943, the guards were well aware of his ...

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 ...

Roy Whiting was jailed for life for the murder of Sarah Payne in December 2001 with a minimum term of 50 years, later reduced ...

The EU is paying the Libyan Coast Guard to capture migrants before they can reach Europe’s shores. What happens next is often ...

The reopening of a minimum security prison near Los Lunas has been a literal breath of fresh air for the inmates who qualify to be housed there. Known as “The Farm,” the facility — built in 1939 and ...

Groves, Massey, and eight other inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish Prison on May 16 by yanking open a faulty cell door, removing a toilet, crawling through a hole, and scaling a barbed wire ...

A new lawsuit alleges that a deaf man who was killed in Baltimore's jail was forced to share a cell with a first-degree murder suspect whose violent behavior had already alarmed his previous cellmate.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A man who was sentenced to death for murdering two teens more than 20 years ago was killed in an attack Friday at Kern Valley State Prison, according to prison officials.

The group of inmates escaped by yanking open a faulty cell door, removing a toilet, crawling through a hole and scaling a barbed wire fence in the early morning hours when a lone guard left to get ...