Standing before this imposing stone fortress, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was voluntarily walking into the Pennsylvania equivalent of the Twilight Zone. The imposing stone facade of the Old Jail ...

As Donald Trump prepares to make good on his promise to deport possibly millions of undocumented immigrants, the private prison industry appears poised to cash in.

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

Exclusive: Liverpool's former academy prodigy reveals how he went from budding football star to convicted cocaine conspirator ...

Mystery surrounds an inmate’s escape nearly 100 years after he broke free from a North Carolina prison, historians said. “On July 10, 1930, Otto Wood made his final escape from Central Prison,” the ...

The world may know in the next few months whether triple-murderer Erin Patterson will fight the guilty verdicts handed down ...

Drugs have always been a problem in jails, but a devastating report today from the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor ...

A scathing new report has revealed how drones are regularly making deliveries of drugs into HMP Manchester with ...

Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

After contracting an ear infection and developing acute meningitis, Oscar Wilde died penniless in Paris. Despite only writing ...

Stone walls do not a prison make, but in Mansfield, Ohio, they’ve certainly made one of the most spine-tingling tourist attractions this side of the supernatural.

Anyone who loves prison dramas, like 'Oz,' 'Prison Break,' or 'Orange Is the New Black,' knows that inmates have their own ...