Michael Karl Geilenfeld was sentenced to 210 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing children at the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys.

Ten inmates at a New Orleans jail surreptitiously cut through cell walls using electric hair trimmers before fleeing into the dead of night when an employee tasked with watching security cameras stepped away for food.

HM Inspectorate of Prisons had previously found that prison bosses were not using data effectively to reduce violence or self-harm, but the latest report concluded that "reasonable progress" had been made to understand the causes of the problem, despite the rise in incidents.

Michael Karl Geilenfeld was sentenced to 210 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing children at the Haiti orphanage he founded.

The Salvadoran government knew we were coming to see him. We notified their embassy in Washington, local officials, and our own ambassador to the country. Yet, they shut us out.”

Criminals at a prison where some cells have been locked down during the day due to serious violence could pose an even higher risk to the public when released, their families have warned. Staff members and inmates at HMP Swinfen Hall, in Lichfield, have been hurt in attacks, including a prison officer who was stabbed in the head.

Students at an elementary school in England weren't sure what to think when a prison on wheels recently arrived on their campus.

The people who were supposed to be providing critical oversight were involved financially with some of the people running the prison.