Zachary Harader was seen in a picture shared last year on social media showing him entangled in wire atop a fence.

"Ensuring we do our part in reducing recidivism," said Kimberly Hollingsworth, president of Olive Harvey College. The college ...

CNN visits Al-Roj camp, a detention center in northeastern Syria where more than 2,000 women and children (though some are no longer children) have been held – some for more than a decade – by the ...

Isabelle Dale was a teenager when she joined the prison service. Within months of starting work as an officer at HMP ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest ...

Recent data from the Judicial Branch has renewed questions about how well CT is addressing the challenges young women face in ...

Venezuela continued releasing political prisoners on Saturday, including a member of opposition leader María Corina Machado’s party, a week after President Nicolás Maduro was captured by US forces.

An inmate at a troubled jail in Nottinghamshire died on New Year's Eve, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed. Perrie Melladay, 33, was serving a sentence at HMP Lowdham Grange. At least 17 ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

A female prison officer had 'intimate relationships' with inmates and 'smuggled cannabis and tobacco' into jail, a court heard. Kayleigh Robson, 29, struck up inappropriate romances with prisoners at ...

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? By Jan Ransom Jan Ransom has been covering the ...