El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...

Twelve Black inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's first super-maximum security prison, have reportedly set themselves on fire since September in a bid to get transferred away from abusive ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

Screengrab of a video of the reported prison break. Hundreds or thousands of prisoners are believed to have escaped from a maximum-security prison in Maputo, Mozambique, amid post-election ...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been charged with espionage by a Russian court and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security prison. Gershkovich, 32, is the American-born son ...