According to historical accounts, out of the 36 Alcatraz inmates who tried to flee before the prison was closed in March 1963 ...

Mixing historical fiction and crime thriller, Oni Press' Out of Alcatraz #1 imagines what happened after the most daring ...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet on March 21, 2006, giving rise to one of the most popular social media ...

We should seize upon the state’s historic surplus and look to replace Green Bay Correctional Institution. It is time to stop delaying the inevitable.

On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third attempt to march from ...

In 1963, the United States closed Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary; over 1,500 inmates had been jailed at the island prison off the coast of San Francisco, California over its three decades of use.

A recent prison break has exposed the flaws in Indonesia's overstretched correctional system. Experts say a complete overhaul ...

The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling just hours before the execution, declined to halt the execution. On Friday, a federal ...

A man accused of killing Joel Osteen's great-aunt waited almost two decades in the Harris County Jail without a trial.