City officials say the dilapidated structure poses ‘an imminent threat to public health and safety’ and aren’t sure if it can ...

Some 500 people waiting to be sent to upstate prisons won’t be moved until at least late April, THE CITY has learned.

New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks ...

Amanda Knox claims she was groped by a prison guard while locked up over the killing of British student Meredith Kercher. Meredith, 21, who was studying at Leeds University, was found stabbed to ...

Fresh from the United States, they were shoved onto buses and hauled into the prison under blinding klieg lights. They were forced to their knees and guards shaved their heads and faces with blunt ...

IONE, Calif. (WKRC) - A husband allegedly strangled his wife to death during a conjugal visit at the prison he was sentenced to after murdering four people in an armed robbery. According to ...

An 'aggressive' prisoner has been handed a longer sentence for a shocking assault on three guards with a makeshift ... each of the assaults on the three prison officers. Prosecutor Selda Krasniqi ...

The prison was first announced for a capacity of 20,000 detainees. The Salvadoran government later doubled its reported capacity, to 40,000. As Human Rights Watch explained to the UN Human Rights ...

The few areas in the prison that are "carved out for respite – break rooms, dining halls, a gym" – are only accessible to guards. The prison has been described as a "black hole of human rights ...

A prisoner brandished a sharpened part of a hand basin before he assaulted three guards. Billy Joe Walsh ... for each of the assaults on the three prison officers. You can sign up for all the ...