Carolina Miranda, a former columnist for the LA Times, wrote in the Washington Post an op-ed likening El Salvador's infamous ...

The ingenious plot by Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin in 1962 probably stands as the nation’s most famous prison break, memorialized in the 1979 film "Escape from Alcatraz" and ...

Justice Mark Wall KC told the two murderers who set fire to an innocent Wolverhampton family's home he had considered locking ...

Oscar Smith was sentenced to death after he was convicted of the murder of Judith Smith and her two sons, Jason and Chad ...

"I don't know if you're remorseful," Maggie Leslie said in court. "But if you are, I forgive you. And I know if Deborah were here she would too." ...

Ryan Miller had spent so much time behind bars in recent years that he was "serving a life sentence in instalments". One of ...

Lee, who was allegedly caught with £1.2 million worth of cannabis at Bandaranaike Airport in Sri Lanka, faces years locked in a grim prison on the island ...

A young British woman facing years locked in a grim Sri Lankan jail after being caught with £1.2 million worth of cannabis has told of her despair – and insisted she has been set up. ..

Inmates at a prison near Worksop are living in ‘dilapidated’ conditions and a quarter have developed a drug problem after going inside.

A federal grand jury in Del Rio has indicted a 46-year-old Mexican national on four counts related to methamphetamine ...

With prisons overflowing, France is considering renting cells abroad. But will this solve the problem or just shift it to ...