The new law approved by Gov. Brad Little makes Idaho the only U.S. state with the controversial method to put prisoners to ...

Meanwhile, Daniel Troya, Ricardo Sanchez and 19 other federal inmates are fighting a transfer from Indiana to a 'supermax' ...

Explore the top 10 most secure prisons in the world where escape is impossible. Read how these facilities maintain extreme ...

Former prison officials are sounding the alarm about moving maximum custody inmates to close custody but the Arizona prisons director is defending the practice.

American jail and prison escapes have long captured the public imagination, blending real danger with elements of ingenuity, ...

Medium-security prisons: These prisons are always surrounded by razor wire and multiple fences ... Also known as United States Penitentiaries and maximum custody, these are used for inmates ...

I fell in love with opera at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a notorious maximum security prison located in the woods of Westchester ... As a makeshift antenna, I used a detached headphone wire ...

a maximum-security prison for men. Sing Sing is one of the oldest and most notorious prisons in the United States. Its massive stone blocks and barbed-wire fences sit on a hill overlooking the ...

The last prison escape in New York state took place in July 2003, when two convicted murderers fled the maximum-security ... built two fences topped with razor wire around most of the sprawling ...

Jelly Roll and his co-writers celebrated the No. 1 status of their song "I Am Not Okay" by performing at Riverbend State Prison in Nashville. Inside the jailhouse concert.

Just outside the rolls of razor wire and chain link fencing sat ... were nearly 100 residents of the maximum security prison — the two groups separated only by a chain link fence.

Were it not for the tall fences topped with razor ... wire or the multiple security checkpoints, CUSAM might seem like any other higher-education facility. But CUSAM is situated in the San Martin ...