SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Among the stops on a tour Wednesday of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls was a group shower, a location which the state Department of Corrections ...

Thomas J. Crittenden, decided to build a second penitentiary to relieve overcrowding at the Jefferson City penitentiary, built in 1836. A commission consisting of John Walker, state auditor ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — KELOLAND News hadn’t had the chance to bring a camera behind the walls of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in recent years… until Wednesday. In recent public ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...

Bryan Paterson told Global News that while Kingston does have housing needs, transforming the site of Kingston Penitentiary – which Ottawa says can be suitable for housing – would be a loss ...

The castle-like Eastern State Penitentiary is one of Philadelphia's most important historic sites. Having opened in 1829, this Quaker-inspired prison sought to reform prisoners using isolation and ...

It wasn’t until she was signing the lease agreement that someone said, “Did you know this is an old prison?” Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton ...

And then they began coming home … to no homes at all. Eighty years ago, the Japanese and Japanese Americans — men, women, kids, two, three generations of families who had been locked up in ...

A man who served time in prison after struggling with substance abuse has shared six habits he still uses from when he was behind bars. Derrick Moore from Alaska in the US, is a motivational ...

One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 capacity (equivalent to almost half the UK’s current prison population), CECOT was built two years ago. It now houses many thousands of the ...

As one of only four territorial prisons open for tours (like the infamous Alcatraz), the Old Idaho Penitentiary offers a look at life behind bars. In 1872, it started receiving criminals to its ...