Tamil Nadu Special Police secures Delhi's high-security prisons, preventing smuggling and maintaining order among dangerous ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

(AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates ... central Illinois. A federal judge, accelerating the plan by declaring Stateville uninhabitable and inaccessible, ordered it shuttered by Sept. 30 ...

A 27-year-old inmate who escaped from the Bell County Jail on Tuesday morning has been captured. Arnold Bonilla, of Belton, ...

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

When The Shawshank Redemption was introduced to the world in September 1994, it earned a reputation as one of the greatest ...

She came for the high ceiling but stayed to peruse through glazed pottery work, sketches and murals done by the inmates of Puzhal Central Prison ... taboo for grown men to shed tears ...

A court in Tajikistan has sentenced three men to prison sentences ranging from two to 26 years for attempting to kill the Central Asian republic's chief mufti last year, the head of the Supreme Court ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

Four inmates died at the Shelby County Jail, commonly called 201 Poplar ... Inmates watched the two working TVs blankly. There were also men asleep in the chairs. I saw one asleep on the floor ...

The UN children's fund has also warned that child soldiers are being recruited at unprecedented levels as the conflict in ...