If these facilities close, history tells us the other jails will become more dangerous as their populations absorb more inmates.

Stone received the award for his groundbreaking work covering the civil rights movement, his role as the Daily News’ first ...

The Pulitzer Prize Board honored the late Chuck Stone, who spent decades covering the White House, police brutality and ...

Located on a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was as much a psychological prison as it was a ...

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has debunked insinuations that prison inmates in the country are malnourished and poorly fed. The Service described the claim as false, misleading ...

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

BIG STONE GAP, Va. (AP) — An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who ...