Nearly 40,000 prisoners in England and Wales have been let out of jail under the Government’s early release scheme to tackle ...

LOCALS living next to the prison that mistakenly freed migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu say his accidental release is just ...

Israeli police say they have launched a massive manhunt in northern Israel and the occupied West Bank after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from a high-security facility. Multiple Israeli agencies ...

The mistaken release of a sex offender who was set to be deported exposes the staffing pressures at the heart of Britain’s prisons crisis. A senior prison employee told the BBC that Hadush Kebatu’s ...

A proposal to close a state prison in Windsor would severely hamper the Department of Corrections’ plan to end a controversial program that ships hundreds of inmates to out-of-state facilities, DOC ...

BEIRUT, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, ...

Lee Adjustment Center in Kentucky, where Corrections Corporation of America housed Vermont inmates Credit: File Photo Vermont has long sent its overflow inmates to the Corrections Corporation of ...

A prison break massacre has erupted in Ecuador as inmates have murdered a guard and 11 others, with six officers also kidnapped in the fatal incident. Local media reported that a huge prison riot ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...

"We will never be able to change the criminal legal system when there is so much money involved." Credit: Shira Friedman-Parks We, as a country, are in the era of mass incarceration. The U.S. has the ...

For a country that already has a problem with roving outlaws, this is the last thing you want to have happen. AFP reports that about 120 prisoners escaped from jail in the Libyan capital of Tripoli ...