The New York Times has obtained video of the 2022 death of Michael Nieves, a mentally ill detainee who mortally wounded himself on Rikers Island.

Michael Nieves, 40, was awaiting trial on Rikers Island when he tried to kill himself in 2022. The staff response to his suicide drew a harsh rebuke from the New York State attorney general and ...

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

The island was once home to 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before many were taken to internment camps ...

Three more of the 10 inmates who busted out of a New Orleans facility in a high-profile jailbreak were recaptured in two different states, authorities said on May 26.

President Donald Trump says migrants would need to know “how to run away from an alligator” to flee the new detention center he’s visiting in a remote area of the Florida Everglades.

Recently, Todd admitted that he nearly got into a physical altercation with a famous inmate after the inmate “talked smack” about daughter Savannah Chrisley.

Utica, N.Y. — A third New York state corrections officer has pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this year at a Central New York prison.

'Chrisley Knows Best' star Todd Chrisley recounted how he nearly attacked a fellow famous inmate after they talked poorly about Savannah.

Hundreds gathered in San Pedro on Friday evening, June 27, to protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s apparent use of Terminal Island as a staging area for its operations ...

Who were some of the famous inmates: According to the National Park Service website, among the prison’s most notorious residents were Al “Scarface” Capone, brutal kingpin of the Chicago ...