USA TODAY's initial analysis of previously secret records shows how numbers of in-custody overdoses, murders and suicides ...

We don't know how many people the prison holds, but its total capacity is estimated at 40,000 inmates, the Guardian reported. Those who are there are housed in eight sectors on the grounds ...

Arizona inmate Ricky Wassenaar, currently serving 16 life sentences, is now being accused of killing three inmates.

ALBANY, NY — New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks after the state fired more than 2,000 guards who went on ...

Sixty-three inmates of the Nsawam Medium Security Prison have graduated with undergraduate degrees from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) through its College of Distance Education (CoDE).

I doff my hat off for the progressive stance of the Ghana Prisons Service in giving its inmates a life-long opportunity of higher education which may have eluded some of them even in their lives ...

John Kennedy Javier Sebastian had been one of 10,000 inmates at Lima's Lurigancho prison — Peru's most crowded, and built to hold 2,500. On Monday night, he escaped from his cell, "bypassed ...

Transgender inmates who were moved from a women's prison to an all-male facility, after President Donald Trump's executive order mandating inmates live in facilities corresponding to their ...

The sheriff’s office has put a stop to an attempt to smuggle drugs into the Rowan County Detention Center, according to ...

Colombo, April 23 (Daily Mirror) - Following the clash between two groups of inmates at the Matara Prison, all inmates of the Matara Prison are currently being transferred to the Angunakolapelessa ...

Mr Taylor commended the prison for its strong leadership, high expectations placed on inmates, and 'a culture of prisoner-led initiatives' and called it 'the best prison I have seen in my time as ...