California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) plans to veto a bill that would prevent the state’s prison system from collaborating with ...

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

Matthew Heath has an idea of what life in prison was like for Marc Fogel. Heath, a former U.S. Marine, was wrongfully ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

A woman suspected of killing three members of the same family by poisoning a Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison cell in Brazil. Deise Moura dos Anjos was found without vital signs during ...

A group of men, who have dubbed themselves The Brotherhood, decided the best way to help others caught up in jail is to bail ...

Each year, about 2,475 prisoners return to Milwaukee County. This raises a critical question: Who do we want these ...

Opened in the wake of the terror attacks on the US in 2001, Guantanamo Bay has held some of the most dangerous people ...

On the evening of February 10, a routine transfer of remandees from Maralal GK prison to Baragoi mobile court was jolted by an ambush that led to the killing of a policeman and the escape of eight ...

He was jailed for life after he shot Olivia and injured her mum, Cheryl, as he chased a fellow drug dealer into their home.

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh ...

A centenarian in New York had one wish for her birthday -- to go to jail. Two days after Ms Loretta turned 104, she visited ...