Leaders of the Oregon Department of Corrections this year floated for the first time the idea of eventually replacing the ...

Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman, co-directors and producers of ‘The Alabama Solution,’ discuss the documentary about the ...

While Nicolas Sarkozy is far from the first French leader to run afoul of the law, he now has the ignominy of becoming the ...

When Nicolas Sarkozy was in charge of law and order in France, he saw nothing wrong with his country’s prisons being the ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has begun a five-year prison sentence for accepting up to $50 million in laundered ...

It’s been a month since mushroom murderer Erin Patterson learned she'd spend the rest of her life in a cell "smaller than our ...

Former prisoner Mutassim Abdulsatir gave Margaret Brennan a tour of the notorious Sednaya prison where Syrians were tortured, ...

Two Texas jail guards allegedly left an inmate trapped inside a cell where a mattress fire was raging — leaving the prisoner ...

An inmate died after a fire started inside his prison cell, and now two guards are facing charges, Texas officials say. The inmate, whom officials have not publicly identified, was discovered ...

Two correctional officers have been charged after allegedly refusing to let an inmate out of his burning cell, which led to ...