Some 500 people waiting to be sent to upstate prisons won’t be moved until at least late April, THE CITY has learned.

Prison officers were forced to provide security at an abandoned Stormont office block used to store personal information after a spate of recent break-ins. It is understood a large number of ...

New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks ...

IONE, Calif. (WKRC) - A husband allegedly strangled his wife to death during a conjugal visit at the prison he was sentenced to after murdering four people in an armed robbery. According to ...

The prison was first announced for a capacity of 20,000 detainees. The Salvadoran government later doubled its reported capacity, to 40,000. As Human Rights Watch explained to the UN Human Rights ...

Tomas Emilio Hernández Cruz, 71, a former high-ranking official in the Cuban intelligence service, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Protection and the FBI last week in Broward. The ...

Inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations are imprisoned at CECOT in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 16. (Courtesy of Salvadoran Government via Getty Images) Advertisement ...

A prisoner brandished a sharpened part of a hand basin before he assaulted three guards. Billy Joe Walsh ... for each of the assaults on the three prison officers. You can sign up for all the ...

The few areas in the prison that are "carved out for respite – break rooms, dining halls, a gym" – are only accessible to guards. The prison has been described as a "black hole of human rights ...

Prison guards would force them to remove their tampons, after which the women would have to stuff their underpants with wads of toilet paper. “It was horrifying and humiliating,” Ms. McCarter ...

A manhunt is underway for an inmate who escaped from a prison van as it travelled on a motorway on the way to court. Police received a report of the escape at about 8.54am on Wednesday ...