High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top.

10:14 a.m. - A deputy was dispatched to the Midland County Jail for a property damage complaint. A 39-year-old male inmate had been seen on camera punching a jail cell door window. The $385 window had ...

The incident happened less than 12 hours after prime accused in the alleged Ricin terror plot and two other suspects were moved to Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati Central Jail under judicial custody.

An inmate's death Sunday at the Keith County Jail in southwest Nebraska is under investigation by the State Patrol.

The Old Jail Museum isn’t your typical tourist attraction – it’s a visceral journey into America’s past that engages all your senses from the moment you approach its formidable facade.

One prisoner has earned a six-figure salary as Maine is one of the few states to let incarcerated people work remote jobs for ...

Behind imposing stone walls in the heart of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania lies a fortress of forgotten souls where history’s darkest chapters come alive with every creaking cell door and shadowy corridor.

Isabelle Dale was 19 when she started working at HMP Coldingley where she ended up having relationships with not one, but two ...

Spain’s Supreme Court ordered the provisional release from jail of a former senior official in the ruling Socialist Party, ...

Ecuador’s prison authority said on Wednesday that 10 inmates at the Litoral prison in the capital Guayaquil were found dead ...

In her letters addressed to 'Sneaky', Dale wrote: "I literally worship the ground you walk on, you are my best friend, my ...