The Prison Officers' Association will demand staff are given stun guns in the most dangerous jails during a meeting with the ...

Petit estimated that the new penitentiary could be ready in less than two years. Uruguayan authorities have announced plans to build a prison for transgender offenders, it was reported in ...

Terry Nichols is serving life in prison without the possibility of release at the supermax penitentiary in Florence, Colorado ...

UK Prison officers demand tasers after convicted terrorist Hashem Abedi attacks guards with hot oil and makeshift weapons at ...

Twenty-two correctional officers at Nagoya Prison abused three inmates hundreds of times through violence and hateful language from November 2021 to August this year, according to sources ...

While prison grub generally gets a bad rap, inmates at a penitentiary in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, look forward to chow time, thanks to Keiko Kuroyanagi. Like other cooks on the outside ...

Prisons officers have called on the government to allow the use of electric stun guns in the UK's most dangerous jails. Mark ...

The mass shooter is expected to be sentenced to life in prison for killing 23 people in a racist massacre at an El Paso ...

He’s right. Guzman, 64, has complained about “inhumane” prison conditions in the U.S. and has asked to be transferred to Mexico. Guzman, the former top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was transferred to ...

Mark Berman is a national reporter who covers law enforcement, criminal justice and other issues for The Washington Post. He was part of a team at The Post that won a Pulitzer Prize for National ...

Soon he was on the run for kidnapping and attempted murder. After landing in gaol he fought the system, rebelling with violent attacks on inmates and stabbing two prison officers with broken glass ...