Cells at the former Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron are now dormitory-style rooms for trainees.

A Rikers corrections officer said he cried when he was cleared of charges he sexually assaulted a coworker on the job – calling the ordeal “the biggest embarrassment” of his life.

Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91.

Steve Bannon—a high-profile conservative podcaster and ally of former President Donald Trump—will be released from prison as scheduled next week after serving his full sentence for contempt of ...

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison. “It’s more cooling that ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Investigators have retrieved new evidence showing how prison inmates continue to smuggle narcotics, including now through books and magazines. John Melvin, Director of the Office ...

Even if the judge sentences Trump, he may not sentence him to prison, but give him a less restrictive punishment to account for the fact that he is the president. In the US Constitution ...

The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by ...

When any royal visits a prison, the governor inevitably chooses only the most trusted residents to take part in any meet-and-greet. So, when Princess Anne came to HMP Erlestoke in Wiltshire in ...

The second part of the scheme comes as the government announced a review of sentencing, chaired by former justice secretary David Gauke, which will explore tougher punishments outside prison and ...

The Colorado Department of Corrections says 34-year-old Leaf Glimpse, a "minimum restrictive inmate" who escaped from a Cañon City prison complex, has been caught. CDOC said Monday morning that ...