At the recent Alle­gheny County Jail Oversight Board meeting, Allegheny County Councilwoman Bethany Hallam showed support for sheriffs taking over inmate hospital trips. They voted in favor of ...

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner ...

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

The Supreme Court stayed the execution of a condemned Texas prisoner on Thursday, mere minutes before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Ruben Gutierrez insists he was wrongfully ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while he was incarcerated.

The reality TV stars convicted of financial crimes were released from prison May 28 after being pardoned by President Donald Trump.

In a news conference Tuesday, Jackley announced 24 inmates have been indicted on charges in connection to May 27 fights at the State Penitentiary that left 14 inmates injured. One of those inmates ...

WATCH the moment Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison – a pit of torture and executions – is blitzed by an Israeli airstrike. A drone blew up the jail’s metal gates in a plot to fr… ...

The alleged accomplice of Palm Springs bomber Guy Edward Bartkus died in a Los Angeles prison on Tuesday, according to authorities. Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in his cell at the… ...

Accused Palm Springs bomb accomplice jumped to his death from prison balcony, sources say A view of the destruction from a bomb blast last Saturday at the American Reproductive Centers in Palm ...

PALMER — A Wasilla man accused of kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and trying to kill a 14-year-old girl near Wasilla in 2022 will spend the rest of his life in prison on consecutive state and ...

Former Santa Cruz County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for stealing nearly $39 million from the county over the course of 10 years.