A decade ago the state prison population stood at more than ... all of those people behind towering granite walls and barbed wire fencing on enormous amounts of acreage are now white elephants ...

Former City Councilwoman Michele Fiore, recently convicted of wire fraud by a federal jury, is not likely to see significant ...

Criminal charges unsealed Monday offer a fresh window into violence and dysfunction plaguing the Brooklyn federal jail where ...

The governor, Gary Milling, rejects any suggestion that the weekly event is a perk which prisoners do not deserve. “We ...

Just before 10 p.m. that night, Cobby, who worked as a nurse at Sydney Hospital, got off the train in the quiet suburb of ...

A group called the Free Land Holders fenced off more than 1,400 acres of national forest land in southwest Colorado this week ...

A24's 'Sing Sing' and Netflix's 'Daughters' screened alongside films from incarcerated directors at the event, where the red ...

Damion Blevins, who was previously held at the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island, removed his GPS ankle monitor and ...

In specialized wards called mother-and-baby units, doctors treat postpartum psychosis while allowing women to keep caring for ...

Bills to fund prison rodeo in Oklahoma pushed to next ... “The inmates were behind a chain link fence with barbed wire around it,” she said. With the rodeo being gone since 2009, Walters ...

Eyad al-Najjar, a 47-year-old laborer from a village near the West Bank town of Yatta, slipped into Israel through a ...