The Northern Territory government has closed a long-running school at the Alice Springs Youth Detention Centre. Central Australian social workers and teachers say it is a blow to young people and the ...

The maximum-security prison was operational between 1934-63 and American gangster Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly were among its most famous inmates. It is now is now a national park ...

Prison is not the safest of places. Killers and other serious offenders serving time in correctional institutions may have ...

Saudi boxing matchmaker Turki Alalshikh is reportedly working on holding a fight in Alcatraz prison, set to feature Teofimo ...

A request emerged from Reynhard Sinaga's parents to the Indonesian government for their son to be returned to their homeland.

IT was once the world's most famous prison - now Dartmoor is an empty shell. Murderers, serial killers, gangsters, spies – and even the president of Ireland – have done time there. But the ...

After being caught, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 burglaries. He died of complications from cancer while on death row at San Quentin ...

A notorious Russian prison complex that once housed jailed revolutionaries, toppled ministers and Soviet dissidents will be ...

On February 12, 1994, the renowned Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ was stolen from the National Gallery, Oslo, ...

In the same post, he wrote: Famous Richard claims he was s*xually assaulted by a correctional officer while in prison awaiting trial (Image via Instagram/@famoussrichard) Famous Richard accused a ...