He said he molded the top of an empty food can into the shape of a police badge and used black aprons from the kitchen to ...

Scotty Gardner, an admitted murderer, has asked the state of Arkansas to restart executions to complete his death sentence.

After a nearly two-week-long search in the rugged mountains of northern Arkansas, authorities recaptured Hardin on Friday 1.5 ...

In the 2006 capital murder trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the self-described “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks, prison expert James E. Aiken testified that inmates at supermax “rot” away.

El Chapo's escapes Guzman escaped for the first time in 2001, when he was smuggled out of a top-security Mexican prison in a laundry basket. His most famous escape came in 2015, when he broke out ...

The Supermax is home to the prison system’s most violent inmates as well as convicted terrorists. “They’ve been in jail. They’ve been in prison. They’ve killed staff.

The Supermax is home to the prison system’s most violent inmates as well as convicted terrorists. “They’ve been in jail. They’ve been in prison. They’ve killed staff.

According to a study by the Urban Institute, the per-cell cost of a Supermax is about $75,000 annually, compared to $25,000 for each cell in an ordinary state prison.