A 22-year-old inmate named for the late John F. Kennedy escaped from Peru's most crowded prison, and video of the jailbreak ...

It was the most secure prison in America—until three men outsmarted the system. Using fake heads, dummies in their beds, and ...

Just 8 years before he starred alongside Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, Danny Glover had his start in Don Siegel’s thriller ...

Hernandez was serving 80 years to life with the possibility of parole in California for first-degree murder before he escaped ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner ...

A man with an extensive criminal record dating back to 1986, Wassenaar is currently serving 16 life sentences in connection to a 2004 attempted prison escape with another inmate, Steven Coy.

Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday ...

Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times The concerns over a possible prison escape by Islamic State detainees have been heightened by ongoing violence in the northeast. The detention centers in ...

A man died after being hit by a train just days after he was released from Holme House Prison, a report into his death has found. Ross Parker died the day after suffering a brain injury when he ...