There are currently more than twenty thousand prisoners in the United States, nearly two percent of the prison population, housed in special super-maximum security facilities or units. Prisoners ...

The first of the two identical super-maximum security facilities to come on line, Red Onion State Prison, located in remote Wise County, began accepting inmates in August 1998 and currently holds ...

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

As of early 2017, the prison has 422 inmates. Many of them are serving life sentences — prisoners who can be sure they'll never touch a fork, TV remote, or soft bed ever again.

More than 40 US states run "super-maximum security" prisons for particularly violent or ill-behaved convicts. But the federal government runs only one "Supermax:" the notorious US Penitentiary ...

Kamiti maximum prison in Nairobi. (Photo: Willis Awandu/Standard) Kenya will now have 12 maximum security prisons after a Government move to upgrade seven more penitentiaries to this category.

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 ...