Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says "building alone is not enough" to deal with the overcrowding crisis.

A 55-year-old fugitive who had been on the run for eight years after escaping from a federal prison in California has been ...

A man identifying himself as Missourian Travis Timmerman tells CBS News he was liberated from a Syrian prison upon dictator ...

Thousands of people imprisoned for years walked out of Syria's prisons after President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow.