The drugs crisis in English and Welsh prisons has reached “endemic” levels, “fostering a dangerous culture of acceptance that must be broken”, said the House of Commons Justice Committee. The prison ...

Nicolas Sarkozy served about three weeks of a five-year prison sentence for his conviction in a campaign finance scandal. By Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Paris Former President Nicolas Sarkozy ...

Two clashes between rival gangs in a southern Ecuadorian prison left at least 31 inmates dead on Sunday, including 27 who were killed by “asphyxiation,” officials said. In the first attack, the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A top executive at a startup company that eased the process for college students applying for financial aid was sentenced Wednesday to over five years in prison for cheating JPMorgan ...

(CNN) — Two things went very wrong when Damon Landor, a devout Rastafarian, was transferred to a prison in central Louisiana five years ago. The first is that prison guards handcuffed Landor to a ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Four inmates died and more than 30 others were injured Sunday when a riot broke out at a prison in Ecuador, corrections officials in the South American country said. The riot ...

In Ecuador, at least 31 people were found dead in a prison in the city of Machala, including over two dozen prisoners who had been hanged. This came just hours after prison guards found another four ...

(CNN) — Two clashes between rival gangs in a southern Ecuadorian prison left at least 31 inmates dead on Sunday, including 27 who were killed by “asphyxiation,” officials said. (CNN) — Two clashes ...