Gov. Maura Healey's plan, which is nine times more expensive than a replacement pitched during the tenure of Gov. Charlie ...

President Donald Trump traveled to Florida on Tuesday to attend the opening of a new migrant detention center being built in ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A prisoner accused of beating her cellmate to death at Wisconsin’s women’s prison almost two years ...

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

A probe is underway after a woman spent the night in a maximum-security prison in Scotland when police kept her there for having supposedly “masculine features.” Police Scotland told The ...

That’s the case for 32-year-old Carmela Rodrìguez Reyes, who is serving a nearly three-year sentence in a maximum security prison outside of Mexico City for selling crack.

Elizabeth Otieno Ayuma has been incarcerated at Lang’ata Women Maximum Security Prison in Nairobi, Kenya for more than seven years. She was sentenced to death in October 2017, a charge that sat ...

Fugitive drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías, also known as Fito, is wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States ...

About 85 percent of inmates at the South Dakota Women's prison are sentenced for non-violent crimes. ... Only about 40 inmates are classified at the maximum-security level.

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, ... which centers women seeking justice for their sons who had been victims of police brutality.

Elizabeth Otieno Ayuma has been incarcerated at Lang’ata Women Maximum Security Prison in Nairobi, Kenya for more than seven years. She was sentenced to death in October 2017, a charge that sat ...

Guests and incarcerated men sit alongside each other at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility's first-ever film festival on Oct. 24. (Tsering Bista/NPR) At the Sing Sing maximum security prison ...