A 19-year-old Philadelphia man is in Berks County Prison after police said he led them on a chase that reached 110 mph on ...

Four inmates who boot-stomped a man to death in his jail cell should spend eight to 10 years in prison for their crime, the ...

Two days will be needed for the sentencing of convicted Banff murderer John Christopher Arrizza as more than two dozen victim impact statements have been filed in the case, court heard Friday.

Tougher punishments outside prison are being considered as part of a government review into sentencing. The review will be launched on Tuesday by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood in a bid to ease ...

By Michael S. Rosenwald Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering figure in social psychology who explored how good people turn evil in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which devolved into chaos ...

Netflix in the US has added a drama based on a real-life prison break in New York that spawned a statewide manhunt. Escape at Dannemora recounts the stranger-than-fiction tale of two convicted ...

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment, died at 91 on Oct. 14. Zimbardo’s legacy lives on through his research over five decades, spanning mind control ...

Mahmood said the prison service is "on the brink of disaster", and admitted "prison is not working at the moment", with prison places running out and many prisoners reoffending. The justice ...

Share BOSTON (AP) — A Bosnian man living in Massachusetts has been convicted of lying to get refugee status and U.S. citizenship by covering up his role as a supervisor of guards at a notoriously ...

On Thursday, October 10, RCMP officers from Drumheller General Duty, Drumheller General Investigation Section (GIS), Strathmore GIS, along with partner agencies including Alberta Sheriff Highway ...

The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by ...

When andy laidlaw began working as a prison officer in 1998 it was “an enjoyable job”. There were “low lows” as well as “high highs”, but it was mostly safe and you “could feel like ...