Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

Gonzalez received thousands of videos with child sexual abuse material within one month of being paroled from state prison, McEvoy said. “Within days of his release from state prison for ...

Now, tourists will be able to get a glimpse for themselves of the fortresslike sandstone prison, where Capote interviewed Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, two drifters who were convicted of murdering ...

Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday. A provisional assessment ...

A week after the deadly escape attempt at Makala prison, many blame disastrous prison conditions for making a bad situation worse. A police vehicle leaves the Makala central prison in Kinshasa ...

At least 274 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria’s Borno state following heavy flooding, the Nigerian Correctional Service said, as aid agencies reported more than 1,000 people had ...

KINSHASA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - More than 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during an attempted mass escape from Democratic Republic of Congo's Makala Central Prison this month, an internal ...

I want to tell you instead about the person I have become over the past 17 years in prison and the people I have met here. At Sullivan Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in the ...

ABUJA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said on Sunday.

“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again ...

This story has been updated to add new information. Inmates at Massachusetts’s only maximum-security prison attacked and stabbed two corrections officers multiple times Wednesday afternoon ...

Thousands of inmates were released early on Tuesday as part of the government's plan to deal with prison overcrowding. About 1,700 prisoners in England and Wales were freed on the first day of the ...