A four-day trial is planned. A double-panel of prospective jurors – about 90 people – will be called for the case.

A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a ...

A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested on accusations that he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole ...

Jessie’s death is yet another reminder of the dangerous conditions inside Ontario’s provincial jails. Overcrowded, ...

Sitting on a couch in her home in Maracay, Venezuela, Mirelis Cacique López watches her son Francisco Javier García Cacique ...

The prisoners say they were locked in the small shower stalls for 24 hours or longer with no bathroom breaks, bedding, hygiene products or fresh water ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California ... and visitors can see the cells where prisoners were held.In 1969, a group of Native ...

The prison was closed in 1963, and Alcatraz Island is currently operated as a tourist site. The order comes as Trump has been clashing with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members to a ...

A 25-year-old inmate was discovered dead in his cell at HMP Parc prison, Bridgend, just 45 minutes after a disciplinary notice was slid under his door, according to a report by the Prisons and ...

An inquest at Pontypridd Coroners' Court heard how staff at the prison found a ‘debt list’ in Mr Petryszyn’s cell and he was moved to another unit due to "concerns about his behaviour”. On April 14 ...

On the night of their escape, they used their dummy heads to fool the night guards while they slipped out of their cells. They then crawled through a ventilator shaft on the prison’s roof that ...