When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

The Collins Correctional Facility in the Town of Collins remains on lockdown more than 24 hours after a Wednesday morning ...

Lukiškės Prison sits in the heart of Lithuania's capital of Vilnius, and in 2019 the prison was shut down for good as the city thought the space could be used for something a little different ...

Republicans in a Georgia Senate committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would force the city of Atlanta to allow the Fulton ...

HB252 aims to regulate juvenile detention relationships, enforce housing by biological sex and limit medical transitions for ...

Nelson, who was wearing a white prison jumpsuit, spoke from a cubicle behind a glass partition and arrived ... Nelson said he has spent the past dozen years in a 2.5 x 3 metre cell for 22 to 24 hours ...

Miguel Angel Montoya, 30, who made national headlines after kidnapping his son that led to a SWAT situation, was found dead Saturday, Jan. 25, in his jail cell at the El Paso County Jail ...

Cell proliferation is the process that results in an increase of the number of cells, and is defined by the balance between cell divisions and cell loss through cell death or differentiation. Cell ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A major overhaul of jail cell doors is now underway at 201 Poplar to replace more than 600 doors in an effort to keep inmates behind bars. The Shelby County Sheriff’s office ...

The officers were injured when they opened his cell door, and he charged at them. They grabbed him in a body hold and forced him to the floor where he remained combative, the union said.

Raipur, Jan 28 (PTI) A 38-year-old Nigerian undertrial prisoner was found hanging inside his cell in the Raipur Central Jail on Tuesday, a police officer said. The deceased, Patrick UB K Baoko, was ...