Prisons in the Middle Ages were often designed less for rehabilitation and more for punishment and control. Some facilities gained reputations for extreme conditions, where prisoners faced ...

“Death Under Watch” is an ongoing series by MassLive and The Republican investigating deaths in Massachusetts prisons and jails. After more than a decade in prison, James Keown had remained relatively ...

Juan Bautista Franco belonged to an international crew of drug traffickers that, sometime in 2018, was found on a boat racing toward the U.S. shoreline with approximately 800 kilograms of cocaine.

In 2018, an Ecuadorian man named Miguel Angel Rogel-Anchundia was cruising on a drug boat called "El Condor" 235 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, in international waters.

BEDFORD — A coalition of nonprofits this week joined a growing chorus of concern over what advocates consider “dangerous and deteriorating” conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the state ...