A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

In the early aughts, when I was waiting on Rikers Island to be tried for murder, I had to watch what everyone else in the ...

A man once held in the same jail cell as Jeffrey Epstein argued there is “just no way” the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender died by suicide in the cell in 2019. “I spent seven ...

History of the shuttered prison For more than 50 years, the Downstate Correctional Facility housed inmates at maximum security, the Times Union newspaper reported.

Milo Warnock was serving a short prison sentence for drunk driving. He was killed by a cellmate with a history of violence in an Idaho maximum-security cell.

Stateville was built in 1925 as a maximum-security prison with state-of-the-art panopticon structures where every cell could be observed from a central guard station.

Idaho’s transition from lethal injection to firing squad as lead execution method will approach $1 million price tag. All executions likely on hold until 2026.

How to Survive shares six clever security tricks used in El Chapo’s prison cell that could save your life in a crisis. These methods show how to outsmart extreme confinement and stay protected ...

Robert Lee Denis, 34, recently returned from his trip to Bronx Supreme Court back to Eastern Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison located in Napanoch, New York.

The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

A 33-minute documentary, "The Quilters," profiles a group of men quilting in a Missouri maximum security prison. "The Quilters" will be available on Netflix starting May 16. The South Central ...

Quilters across the country are excited to watch “The Quilters,” an award-winning documentary filmed at a maximum security prison in Missouri that debuts next month on Netflix.