Milwaukee County jail inmates can knock an hour off their sentence for each hour they spend on some dirty work — cleaning up blood, feces, saliva and other bodily fluids at the House of Correction and Criminal Justice Facility.

Egyptian prisoners are set to be allowed to order meals from any restaurant they choose after a trial run during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan was deemed a success, a senior security official said on Saturday.

A prisoner who escaped from a US jail left a toilet paper origami flower behind as his way of saying sorry.

The luxurious lifestyle of a convict in northeastern Brazil has come to an abrupt end after police confiscated a plasma TV set, gym equipment, two pistols and cash worth $173,000 from his cell, officials said Tuesday.

The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security.