Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

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 ...

Gaza and Jerusalem, Tel Aviv (CNN — Ibrahim Salem, 34, said he felt a deep sense of dread when a soldier ordered him to undress during his captivity in Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman prison.

In the basement of a prison in northeastern Ukraine, dozens of Russian soldiers — some wounded, most barely adults — sat huddled on metal bunk beds Friday, dressed in mismatched T-shirts and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2005, a maximum security prison staged the greatest play you’ve never seen. “Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code” was the brainchild of Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), a theater program ...

Russian inmates have taken staff hostage at a prison colony in the southern Volgograd region in the second such event since June, officials said. At least one member of the prison staff was killed ...

The prison population in England and Wales has hit a record high in the wake of last month’s disorder. There are 88,350 people in jails - a rise of 998 in just a month - according to data ...

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 revolt is the latest in a series of terrorist attacks in Russia claimed by Islamic militants. By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Oleg Matsnev Anatoly Kurmanaev and Oleg Matsnev reported from Berlin.