Robert Vick is a prisoner at a minimum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky. He's serving 6 years for burglary and 5 years for possession of a forged instrument. On Sunday, he escaped. He spent about 20 hours outside w...

(Photo: Asahikawa Prison)Don't think of your stay...  ...and not as a place of rehabilitation. [...]“ Prisons have the image of being isolated places that have...

Inmates at some jails and prisons around the United States have discovered that the...

In 2011, two guards at a jail in Alden, New York got into a fight over a bag of potato chips. A prisoner stepped in between them, trying to stop the fight, and got caught in the barrage of blows. Undersheriff Mark N. Wip...

There's a cafeteria at the Abashirishi Prison Museum in northern Japan. There you can eat just like a convict. Rocket News 24 sentenced a correspondent to visit and report back:Perhaps Kuzo’s biggest apprehension w...

You can't be sure what to expect when you check into the Lew Sterret Justice Center in Dallas, Texas. I suggest leaving tips to staff throughout your stay, instead of just at the end, to ensure good service.Link -via Mar...

In 1973, the U.S. prison population was 330,000. T...  ...h" laws spread across the country, and so did new prisons . Forty years later, almost half a million people...

If you see a young person heading down the wrong p...  ...out of prison faster: Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil's most notorious criminals...

Are you thinking of committing a few felonies? Plan ahead and hire a prison consultant so that you'll be ready on the first day that you step inside. There's a thriving industry of people who prepare recently-convicted f...

In order to control its population of rebellious human prisoners, South Korea's Ministry of Justice plans to test robot prison guards: The robots are designed to patrol the corridors of corrective institutions, monito...