The race for the documentary feature Academy Award spotlights quality filmmaking, but also requires a whole lot of money and the support of international doc branch voters. This year’s crop of top ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Todd ‘Fox’ Morgan was killed last week at Salinas Valley State Prison. Authorities said three inmates — all ...

SOLEDAD — Three California prisoners with alleged ties to organized crime are suspected of murdering an Aryan Brotherhood member at Salinas Valley State Prison, authorities announced Thursday. Todd ...

The Guatemalan government announced Friday that it will ask the United States for an FBI team of experts to help recapture the leaders of the Barrio 18 gang who escaped from a prison. Last week, the ...

SANDERSVILLE, Ga. — Contraband drones are overwhelming Washington County, where nearly half the jail population now consists of suspects caught smuggling drugs and cell phones into the state prison.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A new HBO documentary is bringing national attention to the problems behind Alabama’s prison walls, and it was topic of discussion in the state legislature’s joint prison ...

A woman who ran an illegal brothel in southwest Houston faces life in federal prison, capping a yearslong court case surrounding a sex trafficking scheme. Maria Angelica Moreno-Reyna, also known as ...

Razor wire fencing surrounds the Idaho Department of Correction’s Idaho Maximum Security Institution, in Kuna. Sarah A. Miller Sarah A. Miller for ProPublica A Boise attorney resigned her law license ...

The Alabama Solution (now streaming on HBO Max) is a documentary primed to make a difference. After a decade working on the film, directors Andrew Jarecki (whose filmography includes hard-hitting docs ...

President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused of belonging to the Barrio 18 group were found to have escaped undetected.

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo accepted the resignations of three top security officials Wednesday as the fallout from Sunday’s admission that 20 gang members had escaped from ...