Trial is underway for a former North Dakota National Guard member accused of sexually assaulting two female soldiers he outranked.

After months of planning and smuggling in hand guns, prisoners belonging to the IRA simultaneously held prison officers hostage in September 1983 in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Inmates highjacked ...

Concussion’ helmer Peter Landesman is directing the indie based on a real-life Texas prison uprising, with Kevin Sheridan ...

Ten inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail almost two months ago, and authorities have captured all but the man with the ...

Mystery surrounds an inmate’s escape nearly 100 years after he broke free from a North Carolina prison, historians said. “On ...

A brand new trailer reveals a desperate Mick Michaelis on the run from prison and on a mission to reunite with his kids. What ...

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Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigrant detention facility that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades, has become a rich source of jokes, memes and even merchandise put out by officials aligned with the ...

Three more of the 10 inmates who busted out of a New Orleans facility in a high-profile jailbreak were recaptured in two different states, authorities said on May 26. Lenton Vanburen, Leo Tate ...

The Arizona Republicans pushing for a desert version of Alligator Alcatraz seem eager to throw immigrants with no criminal ...

Multiple state prison officials are set to testify in front of a legislative subcommittee about the escape of convicted murder and rapist Grant Hardin.