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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

281 inmates in northeastern Nigeria escaped after devastating floods brought down a prison’s walls, authorities said Sunday. The correctional officers found out about the escape as they were about to ...

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 will be coming out of my bedroom that I have been 12 years in. “This is a very posh prison. It is a prison because you physically cannot move.” [ Is it any wonder so many Irish people don ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...