St. Johns County announced it will renovate the old jail instead of demolishing it. The St. Augustine Jewish Historical ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their ...

Cornwall is rich in history and a place of natural beauty. But we can take it for granted, and more often than not we will ...

Alcatraz, a 22-acre islet with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline, was once the crown jewel of the federal prison system ... flooded a holding cell during a lengthy ...

Alcatraz was once an exemplar Alcatraz, a 22-acre (8.9 hectare) islet with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline, was once the crown jewel of the federal prison system and ...

US President Donald Trump this weekend said he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six ...

including two baby girls, recording his offences on video. In 1998, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison. The jury also ordered him to be kept in custody.

The prison was closed in 1963, and Alcatraz Island is currently operated as a tourist site. The order comes as Trump has been clashing with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members to a ...

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 ...

An inquest at Pontypridd Coroners' Court heard how staff at the prison found a ‘debt list’ in Mr Petryszyn’s cell and he was moved to another unit due to "concerns about his behaviour”. On April 14 ...