El Salvador's notorious maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center is harsh, dangerous and cruel. And that's just what its ...

State leaders are defending their decision to offer early release to people held in state prisons, and their approach to rebuilding the state prison security staff ranks after losing more than 2,000 ...

Some prison cell locks in "Old Max," built in 1878, are malfunctioning Correctional officers union says the ACI has been without a locksmith for more than two years CRANSTON – The locks on some ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the mega-prison in El Salvador where U.S. deportees ... U.S.

Colby Braun, director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the ...

North Dakota state and corrections officials broke ground Wednesday for a new women's prison in Mandan that aims to replace ...

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After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for ...

Pope Francis decided to open for the first time in history a Holy Door in the Italian prison of Rebibbia during the Jubilee of Hope, a gesture that the prisoners welcomed as a sign of mercy ...

Originally designed to be Turkey's largest jail, the Silivri prison opened in 2008 and has since become Europe's largest high-security penal facility. It was renamed in 2022.