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 ...

Police said he refused to be processed and attempted to flood the jail cell by stuffing his shirt in the toilet.

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

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

A 24-year-old man being held in Cook County Jail died Thursday evening after a fire broke out in his cell inside the facility ...

We must encourage our elected representatives to stop overincarcerating and fund the prevention efforts that make us all safer.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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