Robert Downey Jr became an official part of the incarcerated community when he was gifted with his very own personalised prison handle.

The death of Carl “Robby” Talbot in a jail cell thick with the choking fumes of a potent pepper spray was described Friday as ...

Many of his compatriots in the fight against Putin’s authoritarian regime did not survive. Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Kara-Murza’s mentor and godfather to his youngest daughter, was the first to ...

San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...

I was relieved because I was like ‘ok he’s in jail now, he’s going to be ok, he’s safe.’ But I guess I was wrong,” Thelma said. “ The jail did not protect him. He was not safe in jail.” ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

A woman suspected of killing three members of the same family by poisoning a Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison ...

The first public dissection of Robby Talbot’s death came Friday in a hearing on whether to accept a $3.75M settlement of a federal lawsuit.

Exclusive: The scale of prison neglect uncovered as figures show almost half of prisoners who took their own lives did get ...

Former Theranos founder and Houston resident Elizabeth Holmes spoke about her experience living at a Bryan, Texas, prison ...

Matthew Heath has an idea of what life in prison was like for Marc Fogel. Heath, a former U.S. Marine, was wrongfully ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.