The chief inspector of prisons also said the backlog in sentencing calculations at HMP Pentonville has seen some prisoners ...

In the 1990s, while John was serving as Director General, Mark "Chopper" Read scaled the A-Division roof at Pentridge Prison, ...

Much is known about the notorious Ryan — the last man hanged in Australia after he was sentenced to death for the murder Pentridge prison warder George Hodson during an escape. His hanging was met ...

In the early aughts, when I was waiting on Rikers Island to be tried for murder, I had to watch what everyone else in the ...

"That's the one sort of bummer from today," says Koch, who was nominated for best lead actor for his portrayal of Erik ...

The Linkous family can trace its roots to a Revolutionary War POW who was hired out as an indentured servant to a Patriot leader in the New River Valley.

The Old Jail Museum sits in the heart of Jim Thorpe, a town once known as Mauch Chunk, nestled in the picturesque Lehigh Gorge. The contrast is immediate and jarring – outside, a charming Victorian ...

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 ...

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

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.