Using tea bags, mop strands and other camp detritus, detainees used art as a way of escape at the detention center.

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

Read more about this story and why we reported it here. The underground art of prison tattoos has gone mainstream at Delaware’s largest lockup. In recent weeks, men imprisoned at James T.

Coronation Street has officially confirmed Rob Donovan's prison fling storyline. New pictures released by the ITV soap show ...

A Reliance, Wyoming, man is facing a half-millennium in prison on claims he kept and transferred disturbing child-sex ...

Daniel Khalife has been jailed for 14 years and three months after escaping from prison while awaiting trial for spying for ...

Timothy Lee Highfield has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material.The sentence ...

She is not one of, but “the leading installation artist and sculptor of her generation”, according to the introduction to her site-specific exhibition at the former prison compound.

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman talk about their documentary, “The Alabama Solution,” that explores the terrible ...

is to report to prison on Feb. 17. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Los Angeles Douglas Chrismas, a pioneering art dealer who was convicted in May on three counts of embezzling from his gallery’s ...

The attraction at Reading Prison has been put together by the Reading Guild of Artists, a group of more than 200 professional and amateur artists. The prison formally closed in January 2014 and ...