San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...

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 state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

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

Barlinnie Prison has been home to some of the most dangerous criminals Scotland has ever seen. From serial killers to ...

The convicted baby murderer is serving time in HMP Bronzefield which houses the UK's most dangerous female prisoners.

James Silvia, who has twice escaped from the state prison, will get a parole hearing. He once covered himself in hand lotion and slipped out a window of the supermax prison.

A con being being held in the same prison as baby killer Lucy Letby has given her two-word judgement of the former nurse who ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said.

Some of the most violent gang members in El Salvador are locked away inside the country's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) where Trump could soon send US criminals ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Governor Kevin Stitt (R) said some illegal immigrants in Oklahoma state prisons have committed crimes so heinous that he will not sign off on their release to be deported by Immigration and Customs ...