Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

A convicted murderer was killed this week in an assault by other inmates at a Southern California prison, authorities said. Staff at Calipatria State Prison in Imperial County witnessed the beating ...

A prison outside Las Vegas will become Nevada’s new maximum-security facility, with the state’s highest-risk offenders being transferred there from the prison in Ely in eastern Nevada that currently ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Manard, whose 2006 escape from a Kansas prison in a dog crate shocked the nation, died Sunday at an Arizona prison. Manard, 45, was serving a life sentence for a 1996 murder in ...

Three inmates have died and nine others were transported for medical treatment as a result of an "altercation" on Tuesday at a maximum-security prison in a rural mining city in eastern Nevada, the ...

John Hitchcock graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film studies and previously wrote on his own blog. He also specializes in nature and virtual photography and does art in Source ...

For almost 150 years, the state's oldest men's prison has occupied about 40 acres of land in Concord. The last prisoners were transferred from MCI-Concord at the end of last month, leaving the state ...

WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - Steve Bannon, an influential Donald Trump ally, reported to prison on Monday to serve a four-month sentence after he was convicted for defying a congressional subpoena ...

Discover the ancient prison reserved for important state prisoners awaiting their execution where, according to tradition, Sts. Peter and Paul were imprisoned before their martyrdom. Top to bottom: ...

Delays for medical treatment at a federal prison in Oregon reached such a dire state that an inmate faked a suicide attempt in order to get a severely infected ingrown hair addressed. The inmate was ...

“Has anyone heard from medium today?” Nicole writes in a Facebook group dedicated to the wives of men locked up in federal prison, where “medium” is shorthand for medium security detention. “Nothing ...