ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state prison authorities have lifted a ban on a book about the 1971 Attica uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit. Author Heather Ann Thompson, a historian and ...

Inmates broke windows, set a fire and threw chairs and other items out of a third-floor window in the second significant uprising in two months at a downtown jail, leaving St. Louis leaders again ...

More than 100 female prisoners have been transferred from a Venezuelan detention centre after inmates took over the facility ...

An uprising at a youth detention center in Louisiana allowed inmates to take control of parts of the facility and left three people injured Thursday night. The incident occurred at the Bridge City ...

Seven officers were killed and dozens were taken hostage in a coordinated series of prisoner uprisings at three notorious Guatemalan detention centers, followed by a spate of attacks against police in ...