At least 27 inmates were found dead from asphyxiation at a prison in Ecuador where a riot broke out that left four others ...

Maria Alyokhina reveals the conditions she endured in one of the remote penal colonies where opponents of Vladimir Putin face ...

There is a "clear commitment to improvement and innovation" at Europe's largest women's prison despite ongoing challenges, an inspection has found. An unannounced visit to HMP Bronzefield in Surrey in ...

A federal judge in Oregon has once again barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday.

February 2, 1980, New Mexico and the nation watched in horror as this prison turned from an organized correctional facility into *** slaughterhouse of sheer terror ...