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 ...

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 ...

The pen. The clink. The slammer. The joint. The cooler. The nick. The big house. The hoosegow. Whatever you call it, it is the place most of us dread ending up: prison. A central pillar of our modern ...

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 ...