Michael Lee Wood has been in prison for 47 years, serving a life sentence for murder. But that’s only half of the story.

Big, strong iron bars, and small dark cells holding up large numbers of poorly fed inmates are the images that spring to mind about Nigeria’s prisons. This is not the picture of a correctional ...

YOU On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections released the arrest warrants for 11 inmates in separate cases from November and December 2024.James Wright III, 42, was charged with murder.

As rebels entered the city, Goma’s Munzenze prison became a centre of the violence. It was set on fire, prisoners were burnt alive – and thousands escaped. The UN says female prisoners were ...

The death of a shackled inmate at a central New York State prison late last year has been ruled a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his ...

In 2021, he and five other prisoners tunneled out of a maximum-security prison in northern Israel. All six were recaptured days later. A Hamas militant during the second intifada, Abu Warda helped ...

The type of crime committed, the location of the facility, the staffing, and the fellow inmates all contribute to how a prison experience can go from rather good to very ugly indeed. “ ...

Mr. Abu Shekhaydam, 50, who is married with four children, completed his high school education and earned a degree in psychology while in prison, according to the Prisoners Association ...

Instead, a study group is seeking ways to allow inmates live in "prisons without walls" and work at private companies. The planned program is aimed at helping them reintegrate into society with ...

Meanwhile, Israel freed 183 Palestinians Saturday. Some of the released prisoners were taken from Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank to Ramallah, where video of their release showed some ...

Dozens of inmates are crammed into cells in the prisons in the Central American country. Sentences range from 60 to more than 1,000 years for those incarcerated at Terrorism Confinement Centre ...