(WKRG) – Disturbing cell phone videos that have surfaced from inside Holman Prison during two riots are proof enough that there is a contraband problem. After Friday’s riot, authorities confiscated at ...

A deeply partisan bill that aims to roll back harsh “prison riot” charges against juvenile offenders has now passed both chambers of the Washington State Legislature. The Senate approved House Bill ...

A guard tower stands March 25, 2024, at the male-only state prison California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom. An inmate — implicated in the killings of two people at the same Sacramento County ...

The physical damage from the Capitol riot has been repaired — and President Trump has pardoned almost every defendant. What ...

For years, prosecutors have filed more prison riot charges against young people incarcerated at a state-run juvenile detention center in Chehalis than any other facility in Washington. Legal advocates ...

A thousand inmates at the Chino State Prison are still on lockdown three days after an eruption of bloody violence. The riot itself occurred just ten days after Governor Schwarzenegger unveiled his ...

TUXPAN, Mexico (AP) — Authorities in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Sunday said they have restored order in a prison where seven inmates were killed and 11 were injured in a riot that broke out the ...

An open prison from which three prisoners absconded on New Years' Day will be subject to a review, a government minister has ...

February 2, 1980, New Mexico and the nation watched in horror as this prison turned from an organized correctional facility into *** slaughterhouse of sheer terror ...

Inmates protested prison conditions tied to a criminal group they say operates inside the facility Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025.