Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay hit out after it was revealed this week that the estimated cost of the jail had ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Spanish police have recaptured the last two of five inmates who staged a spectacular escape last year from a Portuguese high-security prison after discovering the Argentine and the Briton working for ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

A civilian kitchen worker is suing the State of Arizona after she was violently sexually assaulted inside the Tucson prison ...

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A state representative is suing the Oklahoma Department of Corrections after an inmate's death in prison.

El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...

Urfan Sharif has been moved from Belmarsh Prison in south London to Category A Frankland jail in County Durham, where serial ...

Suspects in the highest security prison in the Netherlands must attend their hearings via a video connection. The Cabinet ...