Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

French authorities say one of two men who escaped a prison in Dijon by sawing through bars and then using bedsheets to flee ...

Bryan Kohberger has had no shortage of complaints in prison -- and now he's whinging about the type of bananas he's served ...

In prisons and jails, a person’s care is entirely in the hands of the institution. When someone dies in custody, the public ...

The oubliette was one of the most feared forms of medieval imprisonment — a narrow stone shaft where victims were dropped, trapped, and deliberately forgotten. Most cells were too small to stand, too ...

Advocates are calling for action after dozens of pregnant women or their families alleged in a new report that jails in the ...

Walker, 56, came to the earned living unit from Stillwater’s minimum-security unit, where he worked in the prison’s garden ...

The Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced the Iranian director in absentia. Panahi won the prestigeous Palme d'Or for best ...

Two new audits describe how Utah’s prison system has failed to prevent suicides and deliver mental health treatment to ...

Reviews of deaths in Pacific County jail on Dec. 13, 2022, and Oct. 7, 2024, have been quietly completed and submitted to the ...

Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer and one of America's most prolific convicted serial killers, is receiving end-of-life ...

Ray J said Twitch gave him a permanent ban after he and Princess Love turned the stream into a whole marital UFC card. Then he casually drops that some dude in jail was moaning “Ray J” while handling ...