CRANSTON – The locks on some prison cell doors in Maximum Security at the Adult Correctional Institutions are malfunctioning, “a real significant problem,” says the head of the correctional officers’ ...

A new £400 million super-prison has opened where inmates will be able to choose the names of their cell blocks and get a say ...

They were American tourists hoping for a good time, they said. Then they became captives of an autocratic government.

Mark Fairhurst, national chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association ... because they were not capable of locking or unlocking cell doors, they were incapable of controlling restraint training ...

A few moments later, the cell door slammed shut and I was alone ... On our first day at the prison, I had been worried that there would be little to film. Inmates on the solitary unit spend ...

A report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Adrian Usher, published on Thursday, said another prisoner found Ferrie hanging from his cell door a few minutes after a prison officer had unlocked ...

A former Thai police officer serving life in prison for murder was found dead in his cell and an investigation into his death ...

A former prison guard pleaded guilty to sexually abusing ... staring into her cell and kicking her cell door, documents said. On multiple occasions when Rivera was assigned to the woman’s ...

“[He] hanged himself utilizing a bedsheet that he attached to his cell window. Mr. Hernandez also attempted to block his door from the ... and sentenced to life in prison. His acquittal for ...