A prisoner at HMP Littlehey died after the prison cancelled his cancer check up appointments due to lack of staff.

An inquest has been opened into the death of paedophile Sidney Mimer, who died in HMP Littlehey, near Huntingdon, on March 26.

The notorious director of a brutal Iranian jail escaped just before airstrikes, after Israeli sources contacted his son with a warning: have your father open the prison doors, or he will be targeted.

Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday.

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

A federal judge has denied an emergency request from R. Kelly to be released from prison to home confinement amid murder plot allegations.

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is seeking to cancel $500 million for a planned federal prison on a former mine in Eastern Kentucky.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A proposed new men’s prison in Nebraska drew a $313 million bid from Hausmann Construction of Lincoln, Nebraska, the state Department of Corrections said. The… ...

Shanteari Young, a Baltimore County daycare owner who shot her husband when she learned he was sexually abusing children, has been released from prison.

Staffers in Washington's only women's prison repeatedly used excessive force, according to a report from the state's Office of the Corrections Ombuds.

At a Georgia prison notorious for drug smuggling, 23 cases in four years were dismissed because the suspected drugs never made it to the state crime lab ...

The idea that Franco somehow escaped prison time for dating a 14-year-old while sending money to her mother is astonishing and not likely to be so easily dismissed by MLB officials who will ...