Prison officials often say that strip searches are necessary to keep contraband, including weapons and drugs, outside of prisons. This is a worthy goal, but research suggests that strip searches don’t ...

The Lilias Centre gives inmates greater freedom than traditional prisons and prepares them for life in the community.

A record number of prisoners had to be kept in police cells on a single night as the overcrowding crisis behind bars ...

Labelled the "Mad Axeman" for holding an elderly couple at axe-point, Frank Mitchell was condemned to life at HMP Dartmoor.

Labelled the "Mad Axeman" for holding an elderly couple at axe-point, Frank Mitchell was condemned to life at HMP Dartmoor.

The penal systems in Norway, Sweden and Denmark are internationally known for their focus on rehabilitation and reintegration ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — A man has been sentenced to six years in prison for stealing more than $126,000 from a Highlands Ranch woman through a scam that convinced her to purchase gold bars.

Impact Link Sam Bankman-Fried talked life behind bars in a wide-ranging ... "The scale of everything is so diminished in prison, you see people fighting over a single banana," Bankman-Fried ...

Some of the world’s most flavourful whiskies are the products of single distilleries — featuring 100 per cent malted barley that’s distilled in pot stills and matured for several years. Each sip ...

A seventh inmate has died at the troubled maximum-security prison in Waupun, according to the state Department of Corrections. Damien Evans, 23, died Tuesday, according to the DOC website, which ...

In addition to his 18-month prison sentence, Civitello was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and will be placed on three years of supervised release after his time behind bars.