New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay ...

Graffiti, produced by an inmate of an ancient Roman prison in Corinth, Greece, contained a chilling message for captors.

Pope Francis has inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison, taking a message of hope to inmates and involving them in ...

Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving ...

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PHOTO PROVIDED Flora V. Matthews was the first and only female prison warden for Lycoming County, leading the old Lycoming County Prison, shown here, on the corner of William and Third streets.

Sources say Sean “Diddy” Combs is “trying to stay positive” as he gears up for his first Christmas in federal ... inmates become very solemn,” federal prison consultant Sam Mangel ...

Tens of thousands of prisoners deemed to be at low risk of committing crimes again have languished in lockup for as long as a year after they reached their release date under the First Step Act.

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(AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday honored the memory of his first wife and baby daughter ... Wednesday at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church near Biden's home in Delaware.

is at least as old as the 15 Century though probably older,” Check said. He further said, “The Holy Door at the prison for a Jubilee is an innovation of Pope Francis’s. This is the first ...