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

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

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

El Salvador meeting: Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said on Thursday night that he had met in El Salvador with Kilmar ...

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

While El Salvador officials have denied Van Hollen the opportunity to contact Abrego García, they have allowed numerous ...

Inmates sit in a treatment dorm at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, around the time of ...

Inside the brutal mega-prison where Trump administration has wrongly sent Maryland father - Inmates are denied access to ...

Superior Court Judge Jeremy Bucci overturned Edward Wright's conviction, citing hidden evidence and new DNA tests, The New ...

Freddie Hernandez celebrated his 47th birthday and graduated as a keynote speaker from Cal State LA's Prison Graduation Initiative while serving life without parole in a California men's prison.

The indictment says several guards severely beat Messiah Nantwi, a prisoner at the Mid-State Correctional Facility, who was ...

The trial of former Corrections Officer Ivory Cousins showed how the tenuous situation in Philly's overcrowded jails can ...