Guatemalan police on Sunday transferred more than 200 gang members from a prison where they operated a call center for criminal purposes, raised chickens and looked out on a crocodile-filled lake.

Danny Masterson, who was convicted on rape charges, continues to grab the public's attention over his bizarre prison transfers. The entertainer best known for his time on "That '70s Show" recently ...

A new indictment accuses a former correctional officer at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California — dubbed the “rape club” — of abusing more female inmates. A federal grand jury issued a ...

Virginia’s Black Legislative Caucus is calling on the governor and the state department of corrections to initiate an independent investigation into allegations of abuse and poor conditions at a ...

The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.