Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...

A violent clash between rival gangs at a prison in the coastal city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, has left at least 17 dead, according to a statement from the National Police. “The situation stems from an ...

A former Alpine resident serving a state prison sentence for driving a stolen pickup toward sheriff’s deputies was attacked by two fellow prison inmates and died Wednesday, according to state prison ...

A Romanian tourist spent nearly a month in prison after police mistook him for a wanted criminal on the first day of his holiday in Italy, his lawyer said on Friday. "The nightmare is over," Ovidiu A.

"We will never be able to change the criminal legal system when there is so much money involved." Credit: Shira Friedman-Parks We, as a country, are in the era of mass incarceration. The U.S. has the ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Monday that the state would close a Jessup prison by next summer due to “substantial capital costs” required to rehabilitate the ailing facility. The cost of repairs at ...

The union of prison employees condemned the contract’s termination, which is part of the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal work force. By John Yoon The Federal Bureau of Prisons said on ...

Sen. Tom Cotton and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr are calling on lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow state and federal correctional facilities to use use targeted cellphone jamming equipment. AP ...

Ghislaine Maxwell poked her head out from under a black umbrella on her way to "work" at Texas's "Club Fed" prison camp Saturday, before she returned at lunchtime carrying folders and headphones in a ...

Disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos says he’s facing “torture” because he’s imprisoned in a tiny windowless cell in a New Jersey federal prison. The convicted fraudster, a Long Island Republican who ...

Maryland plans to close the aging Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup by June 2026 due to facility degradation. Inmates from the Jessup prison could be transferred to other facilities, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California’s largest ICE detention center, a former prison in the Mojave Desert, faces complaints of poor ...