Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s prisons will run out of beds for men in the next fiscal year unless significant changes are made to either reduce the prison population or ...

The first wave of detentions in the new Syria came almost immediately – just after victorious rebels flung open the doors of Bashar al-Assad’s notorious prisons. As ordinary Syrians stormed detention ...

New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported ...

Drones are an escalating security threat to prisons, officials tell ABC News. Two years ago, some health care professionals across the country began to receive calls from individuals they believed ...

The Trump administration is escalating efforts to crack down on gangs that move illicit drugs into the United States, with deadly military strikes at sea and measures to toughen up borders taking ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Colorado prisons are violating the constitutional rights of the state’s adult inmates and youth ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing a California lockup that was once home to Al Capone and Charles Manson over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling concrete that threatens ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing a lockup adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles that was once home to Al Capone and Charles Manson over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling ...

HASAKAH, Syria—In a wing of the notorious Al Sina prison in northeastern Syria, where some of the world’s most dangerous inmates are held, guards wearing balaclavas stood along a corridor lined with ...

New York is closing another prison as the state continues to struggle to staff its correctional facilities and adjust to a two-decade plunge in the number of people who are incarcerated. The latest ...

In the 2020s, the US was spending an eye-watering $182 billion a year on locking up its citizens. No other country imprisoned as many people or spent as much in doing so. And the US wasn’t alone: ...