A prison in England has become so dilapidated that a prisoner managed to remove an entire cell door from its crumbling walls, ...

Winchester prison is so dilapidated that its residents can chip away walls and windows with plastic cutlery, according to the ...

Eleven inmates at the Avoyelles Parish DC-1 Jail attempted an escape early Wednesday morning, forcing their way through a ...

According to a news release, the inmates “physically forced” their way through the cell door past a corrections ... were never able to leave the DC-1 Jail facility,” the news release read.

In the House of Mirrors, political captives were pushed to the brink of insanity and death. Some are telling their stories ...

I met Daniel in a high-security prison, where I worked as a prison officer. He was just 21. We’d talked about him a lot ...

Inmates broadcasting the unusual culture at the D.C. Jail, through their ... told me that he was in his cell reading when he heard the shouts. Outside his door, on a television posted high in ...

Jimmy Boyle fought his incarceration at Scotland's most notorious prison, but it led him to becoming a celebrated artist.

The Government had “no choice” but to put in place emergency measures for prison overcrowding, a minister has said. Lord ...

This story first appeared in Bolts, and is reprinted with permission. Michael Broadway gasped for air inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a sprawling complex of beige and gray about an ...