The Alabama Solution,” a smuggled cellphone chronicle of inmate deaths, sexual abuse and deplorable conditions inside what ...

Behind the walls of one of America’s toughest prisons, frustration turned into revolt. The riot that followed remains the deadliest ever recorded in the United States. Eyewitness accounts describe ...

Three activists — Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole — featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution were placed in solitary confinement last month in what advocates ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Member of the Salvadorian army stands guard outside of maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — Two days after a deadly riot at Washington State Prison left three men dead and more than a dozen injured, two former Georgia inmates say the violence was not an isolated ...

Prisoners in one of Britain’s worst jails are routinely making and carrying weapons, a watchdog has revealed. Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, said the level of violence, including ...

The deadly riot in a prison at Altamira in northern Brazil, which left more than 50 dead on Monday, is the latest unrest in Latin America's notoriously overcrowded jails. Over the past three decades, ...