NewsNation senior national correspondent Brian Entin exclusively goes behind the scenes at Idaho Maximum Security Institution ...

According to a study by the Urban Institute, the per-cell cost of a Supermax is about $75,000 annually, compared to $25,000 for each cell in an ordinary state prison.

As Bryan Kohberger awaits sentencing Wednesday for the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022, his life could ...

France on Tuesday transferred 17 of its "most dangerous" drug traffickers to a high-security prison in Vendin-le-Vieil under ...

Opened in 1994, the Colorado supermax prison is the toughest and most controversial correctional facility in the U.S. federal system. Advertisement.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's final destination to await death sentence is not yet known Inmates spend 23 hours a day in small cells with no view of the outside world at the U.S. Supermax prison A former ...

El Chapo's escapes Guzman escaped for the first time in 2001, when he was smuggled out of a top-security Mexican prison in a laundry basket. His most famous escape came in 2015, when he broke out ...

Northern Correctional Facility, the state's sole Supermax prison, will be closed in July. Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on March 11, 2021.

In March 2012, six state senators and Gov. Dannel Malloy’s criminal justice point person, Michael Lawlor, visited two prisons: Northern Correctional Institution, a “supermax” prison where ...