Rowan Wilson, the chief judge of New York State’s highest court, used his State of the Judiciary address to push back against ...

Vice President JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" was one of the books involved in an alleged scheme to smuggle drugs into Ohio prisons, court records say.

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

A State Department spokesman said he never should have been taken captive or moved to a Russian prison. Mr. Hubbard’s sister and three former Ukrainian prisoners of war held with Mr. Hubbard ...

Lawyers say the death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy ...

“Prison life is very regimented, paternalistic, and monotonous. Everything turns on a system constantly: you will be counted ...

The drug smuggling scheme allegedly involved spraying controlled substances onto books, including J.D. Vance's memoir ...

James Silvia, who has twice escaped from the state prison, will get a parole hearing. He once covered himself in hand lotion and slipped out a window of the supermax prison.

Russia handed prison sentences on Friday to three lawyers who had defended opposition leader Alexei Navalny until his death in a Russian prison last year, capping a protracted legal saga that has ...

Three lawyers for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison camp just under a year ago, were sentenced to prison Friday, highlighting the risks of having any ties to ...

She compared her conservatorship to living in "prison" and said her conditions are demeaning. While Morrissey has said that Williams is "cognitively impaired, permanently disabled, and legally ...

"The experience of being gay in prison has changed a lot since I was first incarcerated almost 30 years ago," Tony Vick ...