Prison is not a place anyone hopes to end up. The fear of confinement to a jail cell for the rest of your life makes most ...

They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to ...

The question of how to care for incarcerated patients in hospitals is an urgent one. We can’t afford to get it wrong.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Michael Stoney said new early release laws were necessary for staff and inmates at Barlinnie prison in Glasgow.

HASSAKEH, Syria (AP) — Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells, a small window in the metal doors their only opening to the world ... The Gweiran Prison, now called ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has welcomed this unprecedented proposal, which could include jailing gang members and deporting migrants, to help sustain El Salvador's prison system.

There was no one inside the cell, which is uninhabitable until repairs are completed. The fire was detected by the alarm system and correctional officers at the medium-security, men’s prison ...