Opened in the wake of the terror attacks on the US in 2001, Guantanamo Bay has held some of the most dangerous people ...

Donald Trump is planning on sending migrants to the controversial prison Guantanamo Bay where inmates have been 'tortured', ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...

But which state is toughest on crime ... Much like the rest of the country, California’s prison population exploded after 1980 during America’s “War on Drugs” which only worked to ...

Dozens of inmates are crammed into cells in the prisons in the Central American country. Sentences range from 60 to more than 1,000 years for those incarcerated at Terrorism Confinement Centre ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Explainer - What Is El Salvador's Mega-Prison That Could Take US Criminals? By Nelson Renteria ... "This is the way. Tough on criminals." A U.S. Republican Party delegation from the House of ...