More than 200 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in Karachi, Pakistani, after they were moved out of their cells due to earthquake tremors, officials said.

One of six New York state prison guards indicted on murder charges in connection with the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...

Wealstun Prison guard Megann Gibson, 26, had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with hundreds of messages to keep the illicit tryst going, a UK court has heard.

Law officers searched Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for an ex-police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison by impersonating a guard and walking out through a gate a guard opened for him.

R. Kelly's attorneys file an emergency motion seeking home detention, alleging that prison officials are scheming with racist inmates to have the singer killed.

A Middle Tennessee prison is on lockdown after a riot broke out overnight at the facility injuring at least three inmates and one correction guard, officials said. The melee took place at the ...

The president said he wants “vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders” to be incarcerated in the island prison, which was shut in 1963.

Tennessee inmate's death sparks scrutiny of private prison giant Matthew Vogel was finishing up a six-month stint at the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, for a parole ...

Trump has called for the reopening of Alcatraz, which was designated a museum and historic site after closing more than 60 years ago.

Grant Hardin, 56, escaped on Sunday from a high-security prison in Arkansas, where he was serving a decades-long sentence for first-degree murder and rape.