Dark, damp and dirty. That’s how Maryland Director of Welfare Stuart Janney described the Howard County Jail in Ellicott City ...

The Ohio Reformatory in Mansfield, best known as the location of the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption," has its own story ...

American jails aren’t as secure as you might think. Across the country, drugs are commonly smuggled inside correctional facilities, which contributes to people overdosing and dying in custody. “This ...

French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy began his five-year prison sentence on Tuesday, locked up in a nine-square-metre cell at ...