Ghislaine Maxwell, the 62-year-old British socialite convicted of trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, was moved to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security facility in Texas, earlier ...

Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday, during an ...

Syrian rebels led by Islamist armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham announced Sunday that they had liberated thousands of political prisoners after a dramatic 10-day military campaign that toppled the ...

Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

In many prisons, gangs dominate internal life. Often, they operate under strict codes of conduct and foster a culture of fear. Despite constant pressure from the prison staff, gangs continue to thrive ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...

Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been transferred to a prison in Texas after surviving a stabbing in an Arizona facility. Chauvin was convicted in April 2021 of murdering George ...

The Prison Break TV series, which ran from 2005 to 2017, has no shortage of tragic stories and surprising events. The show, which revolves around two brothers as they navigate prison life and the ...

The Nevada Department of Corrections have identified two of the inmates killed in a deadly prison altercation on Tuesday. The incident at Ely State Prison, the only maximum-security prison in the ...

Three inmates have died and nine others were transported for medical treatment as a result of an "altercation" on Tuesday at a maximum-security prison in a rural mining city in eastern Nevada, the ...

John Hitchcock graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film studies and previously wrote on his own blog. He also specializes in nature and virtual photography and does art in Source ...