After being led away from the dock to start his 10-and-a-half-year jail sentence, Russell Brand will clamber on board a ...

The jury found you guilty. The judge sentenced you to one of the most dangerous prisons on Earth. And if you’re not careful, you could spend the rest of your life behind these walls. Once you’re ...

Requirements include obeying rules, maintaining appropriate behavior, and participating in supplementary educational programs ...

A new mega-prison inspired by El Salvador's much discussed 'most dangerous jail' has opened in Costa Rica. The Centre for ...

Gavin Newsom's death row commutation covers 548 inmates, including notorious serial killers like Randy Kraft and Chester ...

COSTA Rica has locked up the first 123 inmates in its newly opened mega-jail – a 5,100-bed maximum security fortress built ...

CALIFORNIA governor Gavin Newsom has said he will swap the death sentences of more than 500 death row inmates for life in ...

The weekend escape of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted of murdering a co-worker was just the latest black eye for the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom, in one of his last acts, commuted the sentences of all prisoners with death sentences, calling capital ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has revealed the crucial conversation that motivated him this week to commute the death sentences of all ...

Cárcel de Devoto, which operated as a death camp during the dictatorship, also saw the worst massacre in Argentine prison ...