The castle-like Eastern State Penitentiary is one of Philadelphia's most important historic sites. Having opened in 1829, this Quaker-inspired prison sought to reform prisoners using isolation and ...

A former Guatemalan congressman, Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar, was sentenced to 18 years in U.S. prison for drug trafficking.

They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to ...

Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...

And the 1832 statute creating a state penitentiary included a provision ... resistance as she tried to exercise that privilege at the Eastern Reception and Diagnostic Center in Bonne Terre on ...

And the 1832 statute creating a state penitentiary included a provision ... resistance as she tried to exercise that privilege at the Eastern Reception and Diagnostic Center in Bonne Terre on ...

Cramer is held at the North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck ... (AP) — Much of the Eastern U.S. braced for a renewed round of harsh, soggy weather on Saturday, while snowstorms were ...

Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of Eastern State Penitentiary and how it was different than other prisons at the time.