Prison officials have refused to release crucial records on how the agency handles allegations of sexual abuse.

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

A man was arrested and is facing attempted murder charges and possession of a destructive or explosivedevice at a Michigan City church.Matthew Schutz,41, was s ...

Former Central Florida police officer James A. Duckett is scheduled to be executed on March 31 for the 1987 rape and murder ...

Lawyers are scheduled to make closing arguments at the trial of a Utah woman who published a children’s book about grief after the death of her husband and was later accused of killing him.

A New York man who spent nearly two decades in prison for a roughly $550 robbery has been exonerated and freed.

Kenneth Windley, 61, walked out of Brooklyn Supreme Court a free man Monday, after Judge Matthew D’Emic ordered his 2007 conviction vacated.

As the partial government shutdown stretches into its fourth week, major airline executives are pressing Congress to resolve ...

Carie Hallford, a co-owner of a now-notorious Penrose funeral home, was sentenced to 18 years for federal fraud charges on ...

The Alabama Solution,” a smuggled cellphone chronicle of inmate deaths, sexual abuse and deplorable conditions inside what ...

I’m a former inmate. From Scum to Wasteman, here are most accurate (and laughable) screen depictions of British prisons ...