Las Vegas Valley residents continue to raise concerns over an expansion of a “maximum-security facility” for inmates with ...

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

Prison staff were alerted and found a blue tennis ball in the prison yard with just over an ounce of synthetic cannabinoids and 2.8 grams of suspected methamphetamine. A State Patrol sergeant went ...

Canadian rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after being stabbed in a physical altercation in a California state prison where ...

Rudakubana, was jailed for a minimum of 52 years at Liverpool Crown Court in January after killing Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven ...

It was March 2008 and I had flown from London to interview Britain's most famous soldier of fortune - who died suddenly aged ...

The main concrete cellhouse at Alcatrez, considered the longest of its kind in the world at the time, was built between 1910 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious ...

Football matches and concerts have better security than some jails, according to the national chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA). Staff who are faced with inmates obtaining ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The mother of an inmate who died of dehydration and malnutrition at Wisconsin's oldest maximum security prison last year has filed a federal lawsuit, marking the fourth ...

As there are currently no women's prisons with the highest security grading in Sweden, there now are plans to move some high-risk female inmates to high-security men's prisons, which can provide a ...