There are currently more than twenty thousand prisoners in the United States, nearly two percent of the prison population, housed in special super-maximum security facilities or units. Prisoners ...

Drones seen flying above the prison with the country's only super-maximum security facility led to a substantial response ...

The first of the two identical super-maximum security facilities to come on line, Red Onion State Prison, located in remote Wise County, began accepting inmates in August 1998 and currently holds ...

construction will begin on two maximum and super maximum security prisons like the ones Nayib Bukele has built in El Salvador. Two months after Noboa came to power, with historic levels of ...

The director of the Virginia Department of Corrections met with a House committee Monday to answer questions about reported ...

Convicted rapist Danny Masterson has been moved to a maximum security prison that was once home to several other famously dangerous inmates. The “That 70s Show” alum, who was sentenced to 30 ...

More than 40 US states run "super-maximum security" prisons for particularly violent or ill-behaved convicts. But the federal government runs only one "Supermax:" the notorious US Penitentiary ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. It took prisons authorities more than eight hours to establish that three terror suspects had escaped from the Kamiti ...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been charged with espionage by a Russian court and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security prison. Gershkovich, 32, is the American-born son ...

Kamiti maximum prison in Nairobi. (Photo: Willis Awandu/Standard) Kenya will now have 12 maximum security prisons after a Government move to upgrade seven more penitentiaries to this category.

It is unclear why the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) decided to transfer Bernardo from Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security prison in Ontario, to La Macaza Institution, a medium ...