Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of ...

Guards say the deteriorating infrastructure at Oahu’s largest jail is putting staff, inmates and the public at risk.

In its initial stages, the California Model has improved working conditions for some officers. Others say it’s creating more violence in prisons.

California’s oldest and most infamous prison, San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, is undergoing a groundbreaking ...

Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Staff with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) falsified records about how hot it got in at least one Texas prison, according to an internal investigation tied to a ...

He has served seven of them already. “Mr. An is in my opinion, on balance, a very fine man and accordingly, seeing him return to prison for even one additional day is heartbreaking,” his lawyer, ...

Hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members awaiting deportation from the US have been transferred to a high-security mega-prison in El Salvador as part of Donald Trump's vow to crack down on ...

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in ...

Over 250 gang members have been brought to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) after the Trump administration defied a federal judge's ruling. This move is part of a larger ...

Dudes are going all the way to the last fence almost ... Central State Prison over Christmas and decided not to go back. He headed to Florida, assumed a new identity, started a family and a furniture ...