Moscow"•Russian celebrities have launched a major solidarity campaign in support of a young actor who they say was wrongfully jailed for a crime amid...
Combined operatives of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) and the Manila Police District (MPD) conducted a surprise inspection of the Manila...
Eleven people were killed and more than 900 inmates escaped Sunday after unidentified assailants attacked a jail in DR Congo's restive east, an official...
A group of 91 prisoners escaped a jail in northeastern Brazil on Thursday by fleeing through a 30-meter (100-foot) tunnel, Brazilian media said.
Nine of...
Texas prison authorities carried out the first US execution of 2017 on Wednesday, as controversy continued to swirl around the drugs used to conduct...
Armed men linked to a breakaway Muslim rebel group attacked a jail in the strife-torn southern Philippines Wednesday, killing one guard and freeing 132...
Rioting inmates decapitated their rivals in brutal fighting between two gangs in a Brazilian jail that left 56 dead, while 144 prisoners escaped, officials...