When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

The governor of Barlinnie says he would struggle to survive life inside Scotland’s biggest jail. Michael Stoney described the ...

Forty-eight hours after Nathan Blose strangled his cellmate, prosecutors said, he killed Shaun Harden, another inmate who ...

Her Royal Highness meets with expectant mothers and those with babies under 18 months at HMP Styal in Cheshire ...

Violence between prisoners is said to have "increased significantly" since a previous report in May 2024, with a 60% jump in prisoner-on-prisoner assaults ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

"We are not searching for any inmates," said State Police Tech. Sgt. Jack L. Keller, assistant director of public information ...

A jury inquest into the death of three Nottinghamshire prisoners who died in similar circumstances recently finished ...

Anthony Binfield, David Richards and Rolandas Karbauskas all died at HMP Lowdham after being found with ligatures around ...

The deaths, which happened within days of each other, sparked serious safety concerns at Lowdham Grange prison in. | ITV News ...

A con being being held in the same prison as baby killer Lucy Letby has given her two-word judgement of the former nurse who ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' miserable stint in a New York prison continues to go from bad to worse after it emerged he was rushed to ...