An illegal strike by state correction officers was resolved, but its ripple effects are creating more dangerous conditions at ...

Oleanvine Pickering Maynard, the former director of the British Virgin Islands Ports Authority convicted of a brazen drug ...

The Island County Jail has reached the end of its useful life and renovations would be impractical and extremely expensive, according to a study completed by a consulting firm. The only real solution ...

As the 2027 deadline to close the Rikers Island jail complex looms and the city moves forward with a plan to replace it, ...

The individual, identified as 33-year-old Joan Tavarez Bueno, was apprehended on March 10 following a law enforcement stop.

On Thursday, a delegation of Kurdish politicians announced Ocalan’s call for the PKK to lay down its arms and disband after visiting him on his island prison. In its statement, the PKK's ...

Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

South Korea’s president is fighting to stay in office and out of prison after martial law fiasco. Here’s what happens next By Mike Valerio , Gawon Bae and Yoonjung Seo , CNN ...

Here, a speck of an island named Koh Mak has quietly positioned itself as a model for sustainable tourism, offering a rare vision of what the future of travel in Thailand could be. Heading towards ...