In 1990, the closure of the Virginia State Penitentiary ended nearly 200 years of holding state inmates in downtown Richmond.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's prison photo op hits differently now that we know at least one prisoner is wrongly ...

It’s one of the few civic institutions that still commands broad trust in an age of division and disinformation.

They tell NewsNation they were assaulted by officers who worked there, and when they tried to report the abuse, they were silenced ...

For an insight into the current state of the British penal system, the case of Denny De Silva is as instructive as it is ...

House Republican committee chairs are denying Democrats’ requests to travel to El Salvador and visit its CECOT prison ...

A U.S. senator was denied entry to a prison that had held Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. The authorities arranged a meeting at ...

Maryland senator blasts Bukele for staging fake ‘margarita’ scene as he rallies for mistakenly deported man’s return ...

Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia,who was deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, reported ...

Quadruple killer Robert Maudsley, once dubbed "Britain’s most dangerous prisoner", has been moved from his glass cage after ...

Robert Maudsley, once regarded as Britain's most dangerous inmate has now left Wakefield jail in West Yorkshire and taken 125 ...

Robert Maudsley has been moved from Wakefield jail in West Yorkshire where he has been held in solitary confinement for 46 ...