A person incarcerated at Folsom State Prison was stabbed in the yard on Thursday, officials said.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said staff observed the person’s ...

A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious ...

Alcatraz Island hasn't been used as a federal penitentiary since 1963. It had a capacity of roughly 300 people.

India’s prisons are turning into catastrophic death zones. Alarming levels of overcrowding, with some jails operating at up to 477 per cent capacity, is making prisons tough to survive.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump said he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay to "house America’s ...