Prison vans arriving at America’s highest security prison drive a final stretch of road that reveals the stunning Rocky ...

A prison, by definition, is meant to be a place of correction, a facility where lawbreakers are held as punishment and theoretically rehabilitated. But the prisons we’re about to explore? They’re ...

Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

Natalee Holloway's killer Joran van der Sloot has attempted to take his own life inside a maximum-security Peruvian prison, RadarOnline.com can reveal. Officials at Challapalca prison confirmed van ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A former Texas high school football player who authorities say rose to the top ranks of a Mexican drug cartel has been sentenced to serve nearly 50 years in federal prison on drug and ...