IT’S the ultimate taboo for prison guards and can even lead to them ending up behind bars themselves. But more and more ...

Packed cells, prisoner attacks, broken toilets, and unsafe conditions have created a crisis in the country's prison system ...

Named after the Roman god of war, the month of March is personally significant for me. My son, who’s named after his grandfather and father, J. Siegfred Salvador, and I celebrated our respective natal ...

Exclusive: Packed cells, prisoner attacks, broken toilets, and unsafe conditions have created a crisis in the country's ...

Coronation Street fans were left shocked on Saturday evening (March 30) after spotting a soap legend starring in the latest ...

A correctional facility in Greene County is currently on lockdown after an unknown substance exposure sent four people to the ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

Medical neglect is a persistent and widespread issue in Dutch women’s prisons, according to Bureau Clara Wichmann (BCW). The ...

Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of ...

MIAMI — Hundreds of people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration are being kept at an overcrowded ...

At least 10 suspects have escaped from Jinja Central Police Station (CPS), reportedly breaking out in the early hours of ...

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