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, ...

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 ...

Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was found not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking Wednesday but convicted of a less ...

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 ...

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with ...

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

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo closed the jail in September 2019, and the site has been vacant since. The city says it will work with the state to open "an emergency respite center" at the facility.