Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

A Lansing, Kansas inmate, already serving time for rape, is convicted of kidnapping a prison employee last year.

Lawmakers should quickly pass a bill to require accurate data collection and transparency on solitary confinement.

Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will publish her autobiography and is working on a book on ...

Not everybody is enthused by the concept of a theatric, prison-themed cocktail bar called Alcotraz that's a boozy spin on a ...

He Zhongyang, whose violent assault last year left his wife hospitalized with permanent organ damage, has been sentenced to ...

Graduation day dawns sunny and warm for the first day of November, but the weather hardly matters for the joint Massachusetts ...

There weren’t any stockings hung by chimneys with care, nor were any halls decked with boughs of holly, but Christmas spirit still made its way through Cumberland County Prison Thursday morning.

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

Paul Pogba's brother, Mathias, has been handed a three-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of attempting to extort the former Manchester United star. Mathias is one of six men who have ...

Dormitories at the prison do not have air conditioning, and the lawsuit said the Department of Corrections has "chosen to detain hundreds of elderly and disabled people at Dade Correctional ...