Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...

Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday. A provisional assessment ...

The United States incarcerates a larger proportion of its citizens than any other developed country in the world, with around 1.5 million people serving time in prison. But to anyone who doesn’t ...

With a trial date yet to be set for the 54-year-old hip-hop artist, it’s unknown how long Combs will be held in the Brooklyn prison, but after Wednesday’s bail denial hearing his lawyer said ...

A man allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on the same day he was released from prison under the government's early release scheme. He allegedly reoffended in Sittingbourne in Kent and was later ...

Prisoners tried to break out en masse from the Makala Central Prison in the capital, Kinshasa, at around 2 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET) on Monday, Interior Minister Jacquemain Shabani Lukoo Bihango ...

The first category C prison has been issued with an urgent notification to improve after a "decade of decline", the prisons watchdog has said. Rising violence and self-harm, decrepit conditions ...

Heavy gunfire rang out early Monday morning from Makala central prison in the capital Kinshasa as inmates tried to break out from the overcrowded facility, authorities said. Government spokesman ...

Nearly a year after Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced the state would build its new $350 million prison north of Lincoln, state officials formally broke ground at the site Wednesday, marking what ...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have said at least 129 people were killed while trying to escape from the central Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa. In a statement ...

Aug. 27, 2024 Undisclosed infrastructure problems forced the military to evacuate the prison housing the men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and other detainees from the war ...