Westmoreland County officials on Monday said guards failed to ensure a cell door was locked, an oversight that led to an inmate’s escape attempt earlier this month. Three guards were fired by the ...

Eight prisoners made a short-lived break for freedom when prison guards transporting the group parked outside a hospital and left the keys inside the still-running security van, local authorities have ...

In 1962, prisoners Frank Lee Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin used paint and tape to escape "The Rock" - one of the most high-security prisons It had earned its reputation as a “forbidding ...

ALBANY – Longstanding security lapses, along with complicit employees, were among the key factors that let David Sweat and Richard Matt escape from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” spent months planning his escape from an Arkansas prison, and said lax security in the kitchen where he worked allowed ...