Behind the walls of one of America’s toughest prisons, frustration turned into revolt. The riot that followed remains the deadliest ever recorded in the United States. Eyewitness accounts describe ...

Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole — featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution were placed in solitary confinement last month in what advocates believe is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Member of the Salvadorian army stands guard outside of maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of ...

“How can a journalist go into a war zone, but can’t go into a prison in America?,” Melvin Ray, one of the incarcerated subjects in our film “The Alabama Solution,” shared this question from inside the ...

The deadly riot in a prison at Altamira in northern Brazil, which left more than 50 dead on Monday, is the latest unrest in Latin America's notoriously overcrowded jails. Over the past three decades, ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — Two days after a deadly riot at Washington State Prison left three men dead and more than a dozen injured, two former Georgia inmates say the violence was not an isolated ...

There have been 21 homicides from March 2022 to January 2026 at a medium security prison in Holdenville. Hear from Iowa women's basketball coach Jan Jensen after Hawkeyes beat Washington Hear from ...

Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed Monday when fighting broke out ...

While accused Bondi gunman Naveed Akram’s case is among the worst of the worst, his severe incarceration has a flow-on effect ...