VENEZUELAN prisons are plagued by gangs who prowl the corridors armed with machine guns, grenades and knives – terrorising ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

Two inmates died on Thursday at the Hancock State Prison, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The GDC ...

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

Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador's ...

A Minneapolis attorney is under investigation on suspicion of sneaking illicit drugs to inmates in the Hennepin County jail, ...

Minneapolis defense attorney Sarah Gad denied smuggling drugs into Hennepin County Jail after authorities found drug residue ...

Spanish police have recaptured the final two inmates of a group of five who escaped from a Portuguese high-security prison. The Argentine and Briton were found working for a drug gang in Alicante.

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

El Salvador has offered to house convicted American criminals and deportees in its mega-prison for a fee. US Secretary of ...

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...