The world spends hundreds of billions yearly to punish offenders, with little return beyond more crime and less hope. DW examines how private contractors, organized crime gangs and inmates exploit ...

The Trump administration said the facility would provide about 400 beds and described it as part of a broader endeavor to expand detention capacity.

This is the prison's fifth consecutive year of being recognized on the national stage in the top five. The prison once even held the number one seat.

The "Louisiana Lockup" was revealed as the newest federal immigration detention site, intended to house hundreds of detainees ...

On September 6, 1971, more than 100 members of the Tupamaros, the Uruguayan urban guerrilla group, carried out the largest ...

Long before the prison bars and escape attempts, Alcatraz was built for war. Beneath its surface, a forgotten military world still lingers in silence ...

Tyler Robinson, accused of Charlie Kirk’s murder, is now likely to face life behind bars in Utah’s most dangerous and unsanitary prison, where scabies, mosquitoes, drug smuggling, and violence run ...

A 40-year-old man who was part of a ring that installed card-skimming devices on ATMs in Westfield and Chicago has been ...

A Utah man was sentenced to over eight years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl, following a guilty plea and a search ...

A 62-year-old Cadott man has been sentenced to serve seven years in federal prison for distributing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. Leroy T. McNamara, 9480 Highway K, pleaded guilty earlier ...