Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How did we get here?

A BBC period drama based on one of Charles Dickens' novels has been voted the "best BBC period drama" of all time. Stylist ...

Dickens’s writing remains timeless not because he sugar-coated reality, but because he confronted it with honesty, humor, and ...

France's justice minister is transferring 100 of the country’s most dangerous inmates to a high-security prison to prevent them from running criminal operations from behind bars. Justice ...

PARIS (AP) — They are France ‘s most dangerous drug kingpins, according to the country’s justice minister — prison inmates so wealthy and powerful that even behind bars, they can contin… ...

PARIS (AP) — They are France ‘s most dangerous drug kingpins, according to the country’s justice minister — prison inmates so wealthy and powerful that even behind bars, they can contin… ...