The incident occurred as the two were responding to a report of an assault on a staff member in a prison housing unit.

During the LA-area fires, Jose Angel Amezcua, an inmate firefighter, was where he was supposed to be — helping save the communities he had harmed.

Psychology professor Craig Haney, who served as one of the researchers on the Stanford prison experiments, discusses HBO's ...

The season 1 finale of Mayor of Kingstown brings the first season to a close. Mike McLusky steps into huge danger to save ...

An inmate says that no one wanted to listen when he tried repeatedly to confess to a crime at a facility known for violence.

The video reconstructs Operation Jericho, a February 1944 RAF mission to bomb Amiens Prison in Nazi-occupied France.

Albert Douglas spent four years in a series of high-security jails where he was allegedly tortured by guards, deprived of ...

The family of Andrew Lansing filed a lawsuit alleging Ohio prisons failed to protect the officer killed in an inmate attack.

ATLANTA (AP) — Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including a murder suspect, commandeered a terrified Lyft driver’s car to reach south Florida before she was rescued and they were ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to ...