A new report says delays in building four replacement jails mean the city will miss the legally mandated Rikers closure date.

AN island off the coast of Naples is getting a huge upgrade. The former prison island of Santo Stefano is being transformed into a bar, hotel and open-air museum. The latest plans are to link the ...

An illegal strike by state correction officers was resolved, but its ripple effects are creating more dangerous conditions at ...

As a judge considers appointing a receiver to oversee the jails, there are two very different plans for how that would work.

(Photo: AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba) JAKARTA: A remote island prison for those convicted of corruption charges. That was the threat volleyed by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday (Mar 13 ...

This incident has sparked renewed interest in the global prison systems ... drastically reducing recidivism rates post-release. Bastoy Bay, Norway: Often hailed as one of the best correctional ...

The neighbouring island of Santo Stefano is a former prison location that was in use from the 1700s. It was formerly used to house prisoners during the 1930s and 1940s, with inmates tortured and ...

Department of Prisons’ Media Spokesperson, Gamini Dissanayake said yesterday that retired Superintendent of the high security Boossa Prison, Siridath Dhammika, who was tragically gunned down at ...

“Temptation Island” is getting even more spicy as it heads to Netflix for the first time. In the first trailer for the upcoming relationship series, a new twist is revealed that will shake up ...

Banished from the mainland, prisoners on Indonesia's notorious Nusakambangan Island await news of their fate. The prison complex is home to a number of prisons of varying levels of security.

Total sales for open-world adventure game Hello Kitty Island Adventure have surpassed 500,000 units just 30 days after its January 30 release for Switch and PC via Steam, developer Sunblink announced.

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...