The State Department describes El Salvador’s prisons as “harsh and dangerous.” Its country information webpage says, “In many ...

El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, under President Nayib Bukele's administration, represents a severe crackdown on ...

A lawsuit filed this week alleges that the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women in Chino ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

A Hartford man was sentenced to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release after being convicted of ...

Detectives initiated an investigation at a New Haven daycare center after a child reportedly told her grandmother and mother ...

Two people arrested on drug charges in Auburn last year were sentenced to prison Tuesday in Cayuga County Court. Walter R.

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...

Mindy Jo Jones was convicted of first degree arson and animal abuse after a dog died in the fire. Prosecutors argued Jones ...

A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to hormone therapy under an ...