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When a deputy on guard duty suddenly fell unconscious, a group of inmates on outdoor work detail were presented with a golden opportunity to try something. Quickly, they grabbed his ...

Inmates posted messages on the windows of the Illinois jail housing the parents accused of murdering their 5-year-old ...

Inmates at Coffee Creek Women's Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon, have been working in collaboration with the Oregon ...

It's in rare and unusual circumstances that an officer would allow a group of inmates to use their ...

Footage has emerged showing a group of inmates on work duty in Florida helping to free a 1-year-old ...

Buildings at Australia's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre were set alight on Nov. 6 after inmates tried to ...

Two inmates who escaped in garbage cans from a Kentucky prison have been caught as of about 4:30 ...

Hurricane Harvey left thousands along the Texas coastline with water-ruined homes, months of cleanup, and enough hardship to ...

We're only a month away from season 4 of the Netflix original "Orange is the New Black" (OITNB ...

Fifty-two inmates were killed and 12 injured in a brutal fight between two rival factions at a prison ...

With all three violent inmates who escaped from a California jail back in custody, authorities are beginning to ...

The alleged mastermind of a brazen California jail break was a small-town paint store manager fresh out of ...

It was a daring and elaborate escape: cutting through metal, crawling through plumbing tunnels, climbing a roof, rappelling ...

The inmates escaped from a Southern California maximum-security jail by cutting through half-inch steel bars and rappelling from ...

With executions on hold in California and a death penalty appeals process that can take years, many inmates ...

While big-city jails get most of the attention, lockups in small and medium-sized counties have actually driven the ...

California officials are considering allowing inmates with violent backgrounds to work outside prison walls fighting wildfires, and the ...

WASHINGTON—Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new ...

More than 240 inmates have slipped away from federal custody in the past three years while traveling to ...

More than 350 inmates escaped an Afghan prison following a coordinated attack by Taliban insurgents, an Afghan official ...

Israel's parliament passed a contentious law on Thursday that would permit the force-feeding of inmates on hunger strike, ...

NEW YORK—Somewhere out there are an admitted killer who crawled through a Texas prison's ventilation ducts, a murderer ...

The federal government is trying to help inmates improve their job prospects before getting released from local jails, ...

Rikers Island is a 10-jail facility where an average of 11,000 inmates a night—men, women and youths—are held ...

Some inmates at Rikers Island staying as few as 20 days will be eligible for a new program ...

Officials on Rikers Island, the city’s major jail complex, have begun using body scanners to locate weapons that ...

A fire at a prison in Honduras on Wednesday killed at least 272 inmates and left dozens unaccounted ...