Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, appeared in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, ...

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on 13 female prisoners at ...

Lack of funds for repairs mean jail cells are taken out of service as fast as new ones are built, governors warn ...

The Department of Corrections says in-custody fatalities are mainly due to natural causes among an aging, sicker prison ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

Drone-flying drug gangs have seized control of prison airspace in a move that threatens national security, a watchdog has ...

We want to deter people from doing this. Three hundred dollars will probably send a chilling effect over a lot of young ...

Susan Smith can be heard in a prison call made on Aug. 13 speaking about a letter from the media. (Credit: South Carolina Department of Corrections) ...

The former Northeastern Universit​y employee convicted of staging a hoax explosion​ on campus will spend a year in prison.

TARRANT COUNTY — A 19-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday after a Tarrant County jury found him guilty of capital murder in the fatal shooting of a 5-year-old and a 17-year-old in ...

A jury found the 19-year-old guilty of capital murder in the 2022 shooting, resulting in him receiving an automatic life ...

Deaths in Missouri prisons have increased in number despite a drop in the number of people incarcerated. The Missouri ...