CARLOS HALLOWELL STRUCK HIS MOTHER’S HEAD WITH AN AXE WHILE SHE SLEPT. A DIVE TEAM LATER FOUND THREE HOME-SECURITY CAMERAS ...

Clinical social workers at the Lafayette Parish jail see an average of 90 clients per month with diagnosed mental health ...

Learn more about Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone's stay at Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, now a landmark that hosts tours and haunted houses.

Cells at a 200-year-old prison set on a windswept hill in the Scottish Borders will be occupied once again this Halloween. Jedburgh Castle Jail will host a sleepover of 30 ghosthunters later this ...

On Oct. 9, prisoners at Stanley Correctional Institution worked with volunteers from Sleep in Heavenly Peace to build beds ...

Kidnapped in Gabon on 17 July and forcibly extradited to Yaoundé, activist Yves Kibuh Bershu, also known as ‘Ramon Cotta’, ...

At the San Quentin Film Festival, attendees discussed prison abolition, demonstrated rehabilitation and celebrated one ...

Chaos erupted after a South Korean detainee posted a video online, showing a supposedly comfortable Thai prison where he ...

From the witty dialogue of Richard Osman to the master of misdirection Christian White, crime has never been more popular.

The Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) is one of eight state prisons adopting a new program, the “Washington Way,” which aims to improve the lives of staff and incarcerated individuals through ...

Sean ' Diddy ' Combs will demand he is released on bail when he returns to court today. The rapper, 54, has spent three weeks behind bars after his initial two requests were denied. He was charged ...

She said she bit off her long, silver acrylic nails one by one so she could pound on the metal, mesh-covered screen door of ...