A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study ...

The long-running series Prison Break is hailed by many as one of the best action drama TV shows of all time, and it was a ...

Companies that run prisons and detention facilities are sharply higher following Trump's election victory Tuesday. GEO Group has surged 38% and CoreCivic has jumped 28% in afternoon trading.

While the Avengers deal with Doctor Doom on the outside, T'Challa must rescue the prisoners trapped within the Living Prison… Ah, the Living Prison – a concept after LOLtron's own circuits!

A man who escaped from prison last year after being charged with four murders and then spent a week and a half on the run before he was recaptured has pleaded guilty to the slayings and other crimes ...

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" in which participants playing prison guards became abusive, has died aged 91. Stanford University announced ...

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 ...

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 ...

He said: “If offenders break those conditions or commit further crimes, they will be punished and could be immediately recalled to prison.” “We have inherited a system that is very difficult ...

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 ...

Richard Allen is charged with killing Libby German and Abby Williams while they were out on a walk in Delphi, Indiana on ...

The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by ...