When you hear the name Alcatraz, you probably think of Alcatraz Island up San Francisco way. Or if you know something about ...

Ashton Andrade, a 15-year-old teen from Phoenix, Arizona, with ancestral roots in Udupi, Sakleshpur, and Mangaluru, has ...

It was the most secure prison in America—until three men outsmarted the system. Using fake heads, dummies in their beds, and a homemade raft, they escaped Alcatraz and vanished. This is the true story ...

Robert Maudsley has been moved to another UK prison after spending more than four decades in a solitary underground cell at ...

Plenty of movies have used Alcatraz Island as a memorable setting, including classics like The Rock, Escape from Alcatraz, ...

Wilkes was sentenced to 40 years, with the first 20 years in prison and the remainder on probation, subject to sex offender special conditions. The sentencing comes after the 45-year-old was found ...

The only cell phone Jeff Abramowski has ever owned was an old Nokia flip phone with the ... submitted for Jeff to be transported from state prison to the Brevard County jail in time for the ...

Hernandez, 34, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 80 years to life in prison, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was on his way to Kern ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

In 1851, HM Prison Pentridge started out as a stockade north of Melbourne on the Sydney Road, a dirt track rutted by bullock trains heading north to the gold diggings. By the 1870s, local bluestone ...

The Gender-Based Violence Court at the Police Headquarters has sentenced a 29-year-old fisherman ... hard labour at the Nsawam Maximum Security Prison. In the statement, the Greater Accra Regional ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) also said the old prison building is in a poor physical state and unsuitable for use in its current form Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan said he would like to see ...