A Toronto-area swindler who used online dating sites to target his victims is heading to a federal penitentiary, CBC News has learned.

With Kingston Penitentiary soon to shut down, here is a list and brief descriptions of some of its better-known inmates during its 177 years.

A Winnipeg-area penitentiary where Graham James was held post-sentence says it is investigating how his mug shot was leaked to a local newspaper.

The prisoners who died in the Honduran prison fire had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press.