Executives at the private prison firm CoreCivic say they anticipate the Trump administration's policies will lead to "the ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...

Dozens of inmates are crammed into cells in the prisons in the Central American country. Sentences range from 60 to more than 1,000 years for those incarcerated at Terrorism Confinement Centre ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

But his work is far from over You’ve got questions. We’ve got experts Untold Stories of American History During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping ...

Claustrophobic, unsanitary, and constantly painful, oubliettes were as bad as it gets when it comes to medieval prison cells. If you found yourself locked in an oubliette, you’d be hoping for death ...

Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...

My Prison brings a unique twist to the prison-based games available on Roblox. It essentially allows you to create your own and tons of other activities are also available to keep you engaged. The ...

THUNDER BAY — Sediment that's accumulated in a section of McVicar Creek over the years has caught the attention of the City of Thunder Bay's engineering division. After a recent inspection of ...

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