Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the new $250,000 X-ray scanner is part of a security overhaul in his first year on the job.

Signs of squalor are everywhere: inmates sleeping on floors, rotting food, piles of trash, inoperable toilets, broken pipes, lack of hygiene supplies. But political paralysis remains.

Rights activists in Iran fear intensified crackdowns following Israel's military campaign targeting Iran's nuclear program.

A December inspection by the Office of the Chancellor of Justice at Tallinn Prison revealed that two-thirds of inmates' sleep ...

Some prisoners at Lancaster County Prison refused to eat earlier this week to protest conditions inside their housing unit ...

Unfortunately for those interested in the popular trend, many of these explorations are considered trespassing and carry ...

Rights activists in Iran fear intensified crackdowns following Israel's air campaign targeting Iran's nuclear program. On June 23, Israeli missiles struck Evin Prison, known for housing ...

Critics say the jail’s cage-like enclosures constitute a form of solitary confinement that exacerbates mental illness and ...

Migrants will not be housed in jail cells, City Hall says. ... Lincoln Correctional Facility is a 10,000-square-foot building facing the north side of Central Park. (NY1/Ron Lee) ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. - Officials say a Berks County man died while serving time at a state prison in western Pennsylvania. 41-year-old Thomas Gray Jr. was found unresponsive in his cell last ...