President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...

pitch-black solitary confinement cell that pushed prisoners to their psychological limits. Rules were strict, and silence was often enforced as a way to control the prison population. The simple act ...

D Block housed solitary confinement cells. Security features ... public sentiment in favour of shutting the prison due to its inhumane conditions. After it closed, Alcatraz inmates were moved to other ...

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, linked to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, was transferred to Tihar Jail under high security after Delhi ...

A 25-year-old inmate was discovered dead in his cell at HMP Parc prison, Bridgend, just 45 minutes after a disciplinary notice was slid under his door, according to a report by the Prisons and ...

which was released on Monday and that tells the story of a years-long PennLive investigation into why so many prisoners at the Pennsylvania jail have ... in a prison cell that didn’t have ...

"My kind of theft, I nick chocolate from shops," inmate Connie Parsons told us as we gathered in her cell ... of women, prison is the right place to be' We put Parsons' case to the prisons ...

President Donald J. Trump's latest brainstorm du jour is to reopen the federal prison on Alcatraz Island where he plans to incarcerate America's most dangerous criminals. This despite the ...