The Alcatraz of the Rockies, officially known as the United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum (ADX), is the ...

The United States deported more alleged Venezuelan MS-13 gang members to El Salvador’s maximum security prison over the weekend. According to Reuters, the US State Department said on Monday that ...

Five prison guards at Paraguay’s maximum-security Minga Guazu Penitentiary have been charged with allegedly facilitating the escape of several prisoners on Wednesday, March 26, local media reported on ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Another inmate has died at Wisconsin’s oldest prison, the seventh since 2023 and less than a year after the then-warden and multiple members of his staff were charged with ...

A former prison worker pleaded guilty in September to smuggling cellphones, tobacco and drugs into the facility in exchange for money. Waupun inmates have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging ...

Fifty minutes north of Manhattan by train lies Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison for men. Sing Sing is one of the oldest and most notorious prisons in the United States.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Another inmate has died at Wisconsin's oldest prison, the seventh since 2023 and less than a year after the then-warden and multiple members of his staff were charged with ...

The maximum security prison was built in the 1850s. Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike have been calling for years to close it. Concerns about local job losses and the cost of building a ...