Twelve Black inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's first super-maximum security prison, have reportedly set themselves on fire since September in a bid to get transferred away from abusive ...
El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...
When Illinois shuttered the century-old maximum security facility last year, nearly four of every five inmates went to less-secure sites.
(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) Prison guards stand outside holding cells during a media tour of the Terrorism Confinement ...
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...
When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...
indicated that he will charge the US a “relatively low” fee if it decides to use his nation’s notorious 40,000-person-capacity maximum-security prison. “We have offered the United States ...
Two inmates at the state’s maximum-security prison including a convicted murderer died one day apart this week, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced. So far in January, three High ...
During his 2023 campaign, Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, today the country’s president, promised to build two new maximum-security prisons as a way to tackle rising violence and gang-controlled prisons.