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KINSHASA, Congo—Authorities in Congo said they released 600 prisoners in the country’s main prison on Saturday as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons. Justice Minister Constant Mutamba ...

LANCASTER, Mass.—Two correctional officers were stabbed by inmates at a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts, and three others were ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.— Two inmates died from drug overdoses in two days at a South Carolina jail, which has ...

It suggests increasing wages for the lowest-paid workers from 8 to 16 cents per hour up to 37 ...

Criminals in Victoria’s prison system are being given "trauma teddies" as a form of therapy in a bid ...

HENDERSON, KY—A convicted murderer who escaped last week from a northwest Ohio prison with another inmate by hiding ...

LIMA, Ohio—One of two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison was captured early Wednesday in Kentucky after ...

"Prisons are a breeding ground, to become institutionalized and to learn, basically, how to do more crime and ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Two inmates in a Virginia jail used primitively made tools to create a hole in the ...

ABINGDON, Va.—Two inmates who fled a southwest Virginia jail were being held without bond on Saturday after they ...

FARMINGTON, Mo.—Authorities are piecing together how five inmates escaped from a Missouri jail. The inmates escaped from the ...

"[It's] very difficult for the prison to ensure that person's safety." Siyamak sits down with Amie Ichikawa, founder ...

"They're hurting outcomes at nearly the rate that good program providers are delivering good outcomes. And all you'd ...

Half of Scotland's transgender prisoners only identified as women after they were put behind bars, according to figures ...

QUITO, Ecuador—The death toll from a bloody fight among inmates at a prison in central Ecuador rose to ...

A transgender inmate who impregnated two women in an all-female prison has been transferred to a new facility, ...

ABUJA—Around 440 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Boko Haram terrorists on a prison in ...

HOPEWELL, Va.—All four inmates who escaped a minimum-security prison satellite camp in Virginia over the weekend are now ...

One of three inmates who escaped a Missouri jail last week by cutting holes in the plaster ceiling ...

GREENVILLE, S.C.—A coroner identified Friday two inmates who died in the same unit of a local jail in ...

NAIROBI—A Kenyan serving a 41-year sentence for involvement in one of the country's worst militant attacks escaped from ...

ABUJA—A total of 114 of the 266 inmates who escaped from a Nigerian prison on Sunday have been ...

A Wisconsin county jail will no longer refer to those incarcerated as "inmates," but instead "residents" or "those ...

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s president said Thursday he will issue a decree that could release hundreds or thousands of elderly ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer on July 8 called for reforms in the firefighting program ...

WASHINGTON—Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the United States—and nearly half ...

The Orange County Superior Court ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit June 10 that sought to release 50 percent of ...