Seventeen inmates escaped from a sub-jail in Theni, Tamil Nadu, late Monday night after allegedly attacking prison personnel who entered th...

Police are investigating a security breach at two Adelaide prisons. An unauthorized person may have entered high-security areas using a for...

Two inmates from Haridwar District Jail escaped during a Ramlila event, disguised as monkeys. They took advantage of the festive atmosphere...

Five undertrial prisoners escaped from Morigaon District Jail in Assam early Friday morning. They used a makeshift rope made of bed sheets,...

A leaked photograph showing Kannada actor Darshan relaxing with notorious inmates inside Bengaluru Central Prison has stirred controversy. ...

The announcement comes after the prison department received criticism over the killing of gangster Sunil Balyan, alias Tillu Tajpuriya, ins...

Tajpuriya was killed early Tuesday allegedly by four members of the rival Gogi gang -- Deepak alias Titar, Yogesh alias Tunda, Rajesh, and ...

The Union Home Ministry also asked the state government to ensure that no such incident takes place in future and deploy CRPF in prison sec...

"DG Jails has been suspended and Jail Superintendent and Deputy Jail Superintendent have been dismissed," said Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal.

Jung today ordered a magisterial inquiry by District Magistrate (South West) into the daring jail break incident at Tihar Jail even as the ...

According to home ministry sources, a set of guidelines was issued in December 2012 to regulate movement/visits of foreign visitors inside ...

According to the CAG report on 'General and Social Sector' for the year ended in March 31, 2013 lapses in security led to excavation of a t...

Centre today moved the apex court to prevent implementation of TN government's decision to set free four convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassina...

Mumbai police and the jail administration cut a sorry figure today when it was discovered that an accused in the sensational Shakti Mills c...

To the surprise of many, an inquiry into the incident by Deputy IG of Police (Prisons) pinpointed several security lapses but did not fix r...

Tihar DG Vimla Mehra is preparing a "blueprint" to improve overall functioning of the prison including to plug loopholes in its surveillanc...

In a daring jailbreak, 299 inmates, including 110 Naxal activists, escaped from the Dantewada jail in Chhattisgarh after prison guards were...