A defense attorney and an inmate’s mother have been arrested and charged with smuggling contraband, including drugs, into a ...

Convicted child rapist Rebecca Holloway, who was serving a 12-year sentence, has been found dead at HM Prison Low Newton in ...

A man who escaped from a prison in Puerto Rico in 1987 has been captured in Florida where he was living under a fake name, ...

Proposition 36 toughened penalties which could have added 15 years to Kevin Carlson’s sentence — if his crime had occurred a ...

New contract offer would create a committee to determine whether certain provisions of a law that regulates solitary ...

A Sacramento County jury convicted Tyler Yates of murder after Nathan Marcus, 33, was stabbed to death in 2022 at California ...

Lori Vallow, the Idaho "doomsday mom" convicted of killing two of her children in 2019, said she believes she will be freed ...

New York corrections officials are offering striking prison guards a deal to return to work. The commissioner of the state ...

The return of correction officers allowed another prison to be removed from the list of facilities impacted by the work ...

The deal also suspends element of the state HALT Act that restricts use of solitary confinement as punishment.

The son of a Mexican drug cartel boss has been sentenced in Washington to life in prison for his own leadership role in one ...

On Friday, a Denver judge sentenced a ride-share driver to 290 years to life in the Colorado Department of Corrections for ...