But it was his wife Stella who spoke to the press to celebrate his arrival after a 14-year ordeal which included a spell at Ecuador's Embassy in London plus a stay at the Belmarsh maximum security ...

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 transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

Allenwood closed in 2005, but its legacy underscores a longstanding reality: federal prison camps operate with minimal security. Unlike higher-security prisons, many camps lack perimeter fencing ...

Immediate steps were initiated in consultation with the Prisons’ locksmith to implement counter-measures to secure the gates to prevent any breach of security at the facility,” the release added.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The United States Department of Justice announced that a Binghamton woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing a child’s social security benefits.

Representative image BATHINDA: The 10152 Indian nationals are lodged in prisons in 86 countries across ... 288 in UK even as the maximum 2633 are in jails of Saudi Arabia followed by 2518 in ...

Bronx Assemblywoman Chantel Jackson re-introduced a bill that would require all corrections officers at maximum security prisons to wear body cameras while they’re interacting with inmates.

Dozens of inmates are crammed into cells in the prisons in the Central American country. Sentences range from 60 to more than 1,000 years for those incarcerated at Terrorism Confinement Centre ...

I’ve recently been back inside, this time to a couple of prisons near Wellington in central western NSW. Wellington Correctional Centre is a maximum-security prison with a mix of male and female ...