A once notorious regional Victorian gaol has been sold for close to $2.6m to an alternative schooling group. The old Castlemaine Gaol, between Melbourne and Bendigo, had been used most recently as a ...

SENTENCED IN A VERMONT COURTROOM TODAY. JOSEPH FERLAZZO WILL SPEND THE NEXT 42.5 YEARS IN PRISON WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. HE WAS CONVICTED IN DECEMBER OF KILLING HIS WIFE WHILE THEY WERE ...

The prison population across Ireland exceeds 5,000 in a system with bed capacity for over 4,600, leaving the Irish Prison Service operating at 14% over capacity. The Irish Penal Reform Trust ...

A prison officer at a Midlands jail was taken to hospital after an inmate attack. The officer was hurt during the incident at HMP Lowdham Grange, Nottingham, on Thursday, April 17. The incident ...

A prison officer at HMP Lowdham Grange was taken to hospital following an attack by an inmate. The details of the attack, which occurred on Thursday, April 17, have now been confirmed by the ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County commissioners aren’t showing interest in building a new prison on a light industrial site at 17th Street and Margaret Avenue, as suggested this week by a local ...

Prison bosses should remove trans women from female jails in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling, a former prison governor has said. Rhona Hotchkiss made the call after judges unanimously ...

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood says the Prison Service will conduct a snap review of whether protective body armour should be made available to frontline officers. Abedi is said to have ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The clock is ticking for the task force that will decide the future of a new men’s prison in South Dakota. Currently the group is gathering a list of properties ...

A Kentucky man will spend the next 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes against children and animals.Investigators said Kent Simpkins, 43, was sentenced for seven felony counts ...

After visiting the controversial Salvadoran mega-prison known as the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT), freshman Congressman Riley Moore, R-W.Va., says he is "even more determined" to support ...

Pope Francis spent Holy Thursday visiting those serving time in a Rome prison. Despite recovering from a bout of pneumonia, Francis met with dozens of inmates at Regina Coeli prison as he kept an ...