Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...

And after a trial at the end of last year, he was found guilty of spying for Iran, having already admitted to his prison escape. Just moments ago, he was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison.

My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...

In Prison Cell 211, a human rights lawyer finds himself stuck behind the walls when a deadly riot erupts in the Ciudad Juárez prison where he was visiting a client. Not great! The six-episode ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...

El Salvador is thought to be home to 'the world's worst prison', where President Donald Trump can now send US citizens. Maximum security prison Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

Karyn Maughan has spent years writing about the depressing state of South Africa's criminal justice system. But it was inside the inmate-run Pollsmoor prison restaurant that she experienced something ...

Migrants deported from the US, and even “dangerous” American citizens convicted of heinous crimes could be headed to a notorious hellhole prison in El Salvador, where inmates live in ...

In slickly produced videos, prisoners in boxer shorts are marched into prison yards and made to sit nearly atop each other. They are packed into cells without enough bunks for everyone.

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there SAN SALVADOR ...

She could get up to 20 years in prison for the alleged crime. Loganville police chief MD Lowry told USA Today that they were appalled and disgusted that Koiyan would create such a video where she ...