A coroner has called for a prison to be able to monitor unusual phone activity after an inmate tried to reach his partner 61 ...

The 26-year-old man had been serving cumulative sentences of just under five years at the time of his death on July 17th, ...

The 26-year-old was rushed to the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise after the electrical fault that caused the problem ...

Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman discuss their documentary "The Alabama Solution," premiering Friday on HBO, about conditions in state prisons.

The prisoner was rushed to Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise after the electrical fault that caused the problem was ...

With a shortage of correctional officers, some Virginia prisons are taking a surprising new approach to discipline – forcing ...

Charlotte Kaufman co-directs the harrowing Alabama prison doc headed for HBO and an Oscar campaign. "You say democracy dies ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The only escaped Louisiana inmate who remained on the run following an audacious May jailbreak in which 10 men ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WSFA) - Alabama’s prison system is the subject of a new HBO documentary set to debut on Friday. The ...

Leon Wilson also cocked his gun and threatened to kill an inmate and performed an illegal stop-and-frisk two blocks away from MDC, prosecutors say.

HBO's new documentary exposes Alabama's broken prison system through footage secretly recorded by inmates who risked their ...