The term “less lethal” refers to weapons and ballistics used to subdue people without killing them, ranging from simple wooden batons to pepper spray and rubber bullets. However, these devices and ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump ...

Five men sentenced to 100 years in prison in a drive-by shooting at police after a prison breakout in Juárez, Mexico.

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...

Government reports put the prison population at 14,500 inmates in August 2024 ... (Reporting by Nelson Renteria in San ...

The facility has eight sprawling pavilions and can hold up to 40,000 inmates. Each cell can fit 65 to 70 prisoners. CECOT ...

AGASSIZ, B.C. - An inmate at a British Columbia prison has been charged with second-degree murder over a death in a cafeteria fight. Homicide investigators say Therae Racette-Beaulieu has been ...

ELY, Nev. — Nevada prosecutors say 20 people have been charged in connection with a brawl at a maximum-security prison in eastern Nevada last year in which three inmates were killed and others ...

Infamous wife-killer Scott Peterson got beaten up by a fellow inmate during a prison yard pickleball match on Sunday, according to a report. Peterson, 52, was playing a game of pickleball at Mule ...

His attorney with the New Mexico Prison and Jails Projects says the size of this settlement sends a message. “An award this large, it sends a particularly impactful message to these facilities ...