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 ...

A former employee of Northeastern University was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday following his convicted for ...

Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are working to extinguish the massive blaze scorching Los Angeles. Here's how much they ...

Jelly Roll and his co-writers celebrated the No. 1 status of their song "I Am Not Okay" by performing at Riverbend State ...

After the General Assembly passed a law enabling some people to earn early release, GOP leaders tried to prevent the releases ...

Three Chinese citizens have been sentenced to 7 years in prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in fines for illegally exploiting mineral resources in Congo, according to court filings.