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 ...

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 ...

A man allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on the same day he was released from prison under the government's early release scheme. He allegedly reoffended in Sittingbourne in Kent and was later ...

A serving prison governor from one of the country's crowded jails has spoken anonymously to Sky News about conditions inside, the reality of early release and why we should rethink who is sent to ...

Five convicts escaped from a high-security penitentiary in Portugal, in what the authorities said was a well-planned prison break. The inmates reportedly had help from outside to climb over and ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a trial date yet to be set for the 54-year-old hip-hop artist, it’s unknown how long Combs will be held in the Brooklyn prison, but after Wednesday’s bail denial hearing his lawyer said ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...