Ten Louisiana inmates escape by derailing jail cell doors and squeezing through bathroom wall - One inmate has been captured ...

The bill would require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning at each of its facilities by the ...

Culley, 18, may find herself locked away in Georgia's 'Prison No.5' - a facility described by international watchdogs as overcrowded, crumbling and 'an affront to a civilised society' ...

The grandfather of a British teenage student who was arrested in Georgia for alleged drug smuggling said he believed she had ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...

Despite its reputation as ironclad, it was possible to escape Alcatraz. All it took was brains, guts and 50 raincoats.

The last known living inmate to serve time in the infamous Alcatraz prison reveals what haunted him most about being locked up on the island as President Trump flirts with the idea of reopening.

In 1962, three men broke out of Alcatraz and tried to cross San Francisco Bay using an improvised raft and DIY life vests ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...

Alcatraz Island is most famous for its 29-year operation as a prison. Now it's a popular tourist spot that Trump wants to ...

As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get ...

"For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society," President ...