Two coroners have warned that prison officers lack training in first aid, following inquests into the deaths of prisoners.  Priya Malhotra, Assistant Coroner for Inner West London, concluded that ...

UK contractor Amey Community Limited has been fined £600,000 after failing to manage legionella bacteria in the water systems ...

Andrew Ortega, sent to prison after violating the terms of his work-release program by failing a drug test, was housed with a ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still ...

Dozens of young men who were convicted of crimes in Washington when they were juveniles could serve some of their sentences in former adult solitary confinement cells as soon as this coming spring.

A $448,000 study revealed Connecticut prisons should address mental health issues and stop strip searches and in-cell ...

DURBAN - KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police are concerned about an increase in organised crime orchestrated from prison cells. Police in the province said criminal activities including murders were ...

Kiskyte explains, “We really wanted to show how our main characters’ [prison] cells looked like — it was, interestingly, such a mind map of themselves. There was almost no decoration.

A former Alabama police sergeant was sentenced Monday to more than a year in federal prison for beating a jail ... before entering the victim’s cell and striking the victim multiple times ...