New evidence suggests that the men who escaped the infamous prison 50 years ago did make it to safety.
A new study has explored what happened to three men who vanished after escaping the island prison.
The dungeon in which Vlad the Impaler was imprisoned by the Turks has been found at Tokat Castle.
Tourists visiting San Francisco's infamous island prison caught something unusual on camera.
A visitor to the reportedly haunted 19th century prison managed to capture an unusual figure on camera.
A Russian man faces a prison sentence after police caught him dismantling and stealing a road.
Six Italian scientists face up to six years in prison because they failed to predict an earthquake.
Nancy Marks was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing large sums of money from her clients.
A fourth escape tunnel built by prisoners of the PoW camp Stalag Luft III has been discovered in poland.
A woman attempted to break her husband out of a Mexican jail by hiding him in her suitcase.
A new device that can fire a harmless laser-like beam could be rolled out in prisons to break up fights.
US authorities have been left baffled after a prison inmate escaped by squeezing through the bars.
In a bizarre incident a prisoner in France killed his cellmate before removing and consuming one of his lungs.
Prisons in the Netherlands are hiring psychics to help prisoners get in touch with their deceased loved ones.