As told by state and city of Hardin officials Tuesday, the history behind Hardin's empty, 464-bed prison hinges on one enormous -- and expensive -- misunderstanding. Officials from the southeast ...

For more than a month, the Illinois Department of Corrections has been transferring hundreds of Stateville inmates to prisons around Illinois, leaving the storied maximum security facility in ...

But in the Netherlands, it's a different story. Some empty prisons there have now been re-purposed as hotels or cultural centers. But what's the reason for the country's falling prison population?

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — There was no place more feared in Bashar al-Assad’s Syria than Sednaya Military Prison. By Sunday, the guards had fled, its doors were flung open and this fortress of ...

Once they close in November, Sullivan Correctional and Great Meadow will join a growing inventory of empty prisons on the state's hands, many situated on sprawling tracts of vacant land.

John Kavanagh, a Fountain Hills Republican, said he’ll introduce a bill this year offering the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau the use of two now-closed Arizona prisons “so ...

However, Firstpost reported the Netherlands now has another problem: "its prisons are too empty". As a result, it has leased some to Norway and Belgium, while others have been repurposed into ...