Tougher punishments outside prison are being considered as part of a government review into sentencing. The review will be launched on Tuesday by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood in a bid to ease ...

Netflix in the US has added a drama based on a real-life prison break in New York that spawned a statewide manhunt. Escape at Dannemora recounts the stranger-than-fiction tale of two convicted ...

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment, died at 91 on Oct. 14. Zimbardo’s legacy lives on through his research over five decades, spanning mind control ...

Share BOSTON (AP) — A Bosnian man living in Massachusetts has been convicted of lying to get refugee status and U.S. citizenship by covering up his role as a supervisor of guards at a notoriously ...

When andy laidlaw began working as a prison officer in 1998 it was “an enjoyable job”. There were “low lows” as well as “high highs”, but it was mostly safe and you “could feel like ...

Steve Bannon—a high-profile conservative podcaster and ally of former President Donald Trump—will be released from prison as scheduled next week after serving his full sentence for contempt of ...

It wasn’t. Within hours, he found himself locked into a 9-foot-square cell in Moscow’s notorious, high-security Lefortovo Prison, where Soviet-era political prisoners had been tortured.

Former Marine Paul Whelan described the “torture” he endured while being held captive in a Russian prison for years. “The Russian government wanted to put pressure on the United States by ...

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison. “It’s more cooling that ...

Stanford University says Philip Zimbardo has died at his home in San Francisco. His famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment was halted after six days when some students became psychologically abusive.

When any royal visits a prison, the governor inevitably chooses only the most trusted residents to take part in any meet-and-greet. So, when Princess Anne came to HMP Erlestoke in Wiltshire in ...