A group of inmates in Perth, Australia, have escaped onto the roof of a detention facility with clips showing some of the ...

Ross Calvin wants to bring a towering Prometheus to San Francisco Bay - and he thinks the president is just the man to green ...

Disturbing footage caught the moment rioting inmates at a West Australian youth detention facility broke onto the roof.

Armed teenage detainees were seen on the roof of the Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre, throwing projectiles at prison ...

Instead, Ms Ní Mhurchú was outraged because a small cohort of prisoners on temporary release were classed as violent ...

President says Tina Peters, 70, is ‘dying & old’ – but he currently lacks the authority to free her from prison ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a staffing crisis as corrections officers are leaving for more lucrative jobs at ICE, resulting in worse conditions for inmates and staff.

Touch a flower on your period and it will wither away, women are told. Yet, as symbols of fertility, flowers have become a ...

The Arkansas State Penitentiary opened in 1841 in Little Rock and served as the state's main penal institution until it was ...

Gautham Hazarika's The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II puts the spotlight on the bravery and difficulties faced by ...

Human history has been filled with gruesome bloodshed, but for some there is one cruel death above all others that stands out ...