More than 90 prison security agents are currently being held by inmates across five different prisons in Ecuador, amid escalating violence in the country which saw a local mayor killed.
A homicide suspect who used bed sheets to escape from jail last week continues to evade capture, but authorities said Friday they believe he may be growing “desperate”.
A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar said the disgraced former sports doctor provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while watching a Wimbledon tennis match on TV.
Investigators probing disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s stabbing on Sunday at a federal penitentiary in Florida are lacking a key piece of evidence: video of the assault.
Authorities say Burham, a "dangerous" inmate, escaped Warren County Prison by elevating himself on exercise equipment and using tied-up bedsheets to descend from the roof.
A new $180 million facility at Adelaide's Yatala Prison will add 270 high-security beds to the system but South Australia's opposition leader believes the investment "doesn't pass the pub test".
A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail was executed Tuesday evening.
At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country's powerful street gangs have died in state custody.
The case against a Sydney jeweller accused of staging an armed robbery at his own store for a fraudulent insurance claim is going to "fall apart" when police dig into it, his lawyer says.
Antonio David Mene allegedly fled Palen Creek Correctional Centre in Rathdowney, about 70km west of the Gold Coast, with two other prisoners on Sunday.
Antonio David Mene allegedly fled Palen Creek Correctional Centre in Rathdowney, about 70km west of the Gold Coast, with two other prisoners on Sunday.
A coroner has pointed to a "litany of failings and shortcomings" in the management and care of an Indigenous man who died after an altercation with prison officers while in custody in South Australia.
The chaos was sparked when two detainees at Casuarina Prison allegedly struck an officer in the head with a makeshift weapon, before stealing her keys.
In December 2020, two prisoners detained at the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre ambushed a guard, beating, stabbing and holding him as ransom for opioids.
Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects.
A 72-year-old American imprisoned more than a year in Saudi Arabia over tweets he made has been freed from jail, but it's not clear whether a travel ban will be dropped to allow him to return home to Florida.
Idaho is poised to allow firing squads to execute condemned inmates when the state can't get lethal-injection drugs, under a bill the Legislature passed today with a veto-proof majority.
A photo of another person with the same name led to the wrongful arrest of a New York City man who was exonerated and freed after spending more than 18 years behind bars for murder.
The man was found dead in his prison cell days after details of how he lured a nine-year-old girl from a Perth park and assaulted her were read out in court.
A man whose bones were discovered buried in a Sydney construction yard 16 years ago has been revealed as yet another victim of notorious gangland figure Arthur 'Neddy' Smith.
Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel has been transferred to a Melbourne hospital after he was rushed out of Barwon Prison yesterday evening with a suspected blood clot.