The killings occurred a day after gang member inmates took 46 people hostage in three prisons across the country, officials ...

Hundreds of anti-riot police have entered a maximum-security prison in Guatemala to free guards taken hostage and retake ...

GUATEMALA CITY -- Several dozen Guatemalan prison guards were being held hostage by inmates in three prisons Saturday following apparently coordinated disturbances, authorities said. Interior Minister ...

New information has revealed how a Rockdale County detainee was able to escape custody at Grady Memorial Hospital on Dec. 1.

Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...

Three prison warders accused of aiding the escape of terrorist inmates from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison have been ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Jailbreaks and prison escapees make for the occasional dramatic headline in the state of Texas.

Marie Scott had been incarcerated since 1973 for felony murder. Gov. Josh Shapiro commuted her life sentence in June.

Inmates facing violent criminal charges escaped from a Louisiana jail by removing concrete blocks from a degraded part of a wall, authorities said. The escape was discovered the morning of Dec. 3 at ...

HOOVER, Ala. (WBMA) — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBMA) - An inmate who escaped from a community work assignment in Hoover earlier this month has been recaptured, according to the Alabama Department of ...

MDOC officials have confirmed that an inmate who was incarcerated for setting a woman on fire escaped Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Saturday during visitation, but was recaptured right ...