The British government said criminals could earn earlier release under a new program to cut the prison population, citing ...

Both Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Prisons Minister James Timpson have said they are urgently considering tightening rules on safety within prisons following an incident at HMP Belmarsh where a ...

According to former FBI supervisory special agent, the 10 violent criminals who escaped from a New Orleans jail last Friday ...

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their ...

President Trump recently announced his intention to reopen the island of Alcatraz as a revamped, modern prison under the ...

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 ...

The facility will open in 2028 in Saint Laurent du Maroni in French Guiana. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and ...

Since when does a criminal’s right to make a cup of tea come before the safety of prison officers? That was the question ...

Britain’s most dangerous prisoners face a US-style “supermax” prison regime after a string of violent attacks on officers.

Men's prisons in England and Wales could run out of space later this year, the government has warned, as it announced three ...

One officer was slashed with an improvised weapon in one attack, while another officer suffered a broken arm in a separate ...