Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, is back in a prison cell -- but this time, she ...

4."Your word is everything. Breaking your word puts you roughly on par with a sex offender. You give your word on something, ...

In contrast, some of the 'best' prisons to be holed up in are in Europe. In a thread shared to Reddit, people were surprised ...

Lauren Ingrid Flanigan, the Australian woman accused of fatally stabbing her 3-year-old daughter on May 26, has died after ...

People in the Bibb County Jail tampered with — and opened — gates in the facility that separated two cell blocks, causing a large and deadly fight Wednesday, Sheriff David Daivs confirmed. In addition ...

Eight people, including four inmates, were arrested in a drug smuggling ring at Bexar County jail, with three deputies linked ...

As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

“It was more like a jail cell. And there were six of us ... s detention for potential civil rights claims. The six-person family had one toilet in the room to share. The mother, who is ...

On Monday, Sterling Williams, a 33-year-old maintenance worker at the jail, was arrested on charges that he shut off water to a cell that the inmates used in the escape by removing a toilet from the ...

A fifth person has been arrested in connection with ... showed the inmates removing a jail cell door off its track and breaching a wall behind the toilet of a cell. The inmates climbed a fence ...