The Briefing Room. Why do we have such overcrowded prisons? Audio, 28 minutesThe Briefing Room Why do we have such overcrowded prisons? Britain has the highest number of prisoners per head of ...

Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...

Wetherspoons is making a huge change across its 750 pubs around the country that will no doubt delight their thousands of customers. The offer will start from January 2 and go right up until ...

Birdman of Alcatraz is not really a prison picture in the traditional and accepted sense of the term. Birdman reverses the formula and brings a new breadth and depth to the form. In telling ...

Misspelling the Bay Area prison is intentional ... even though Prohibition ended in 1933 and Alcatraz opened in 1934. (But hey, never let facts get in the way of a good story.) ...

21, 2019. (AP Photo/Nick Lisi, File) MARCY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prison where an man was beaten by correctional officers and then died will get a new superintendent, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced ...

Hear the chilling stories of those who escaped the infamous Alcatraz prison. TikTok Officially Goes Dark Just Hours Before United States Ban Acting Brilliance: 25 Outstanding Actresses of the Past ...

One man is now facing prison time. Emerson Josue Martinez Alvarenga ... involved in a dispute over a game console, shot into an apartment in Leesburg, Virginia. A teenage resident, who recognized ...

In 1946, Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, became the site of a bloody uprising that would later be known as the Battle of Alcatraz. What began as an ambitious escape attempt ...

Some 6,000 prisoners broke free from a high-security prison in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on Wednesday, according to police authorities, as weeks-long post-election violence continues to rock ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mozambique’s police chief has said that at least 6,000 inmates have escaped from a high-security prison in ...