A Mount Carmel man with a history of violating orders of protection against his ex-wife was sentenced on Feb. 6 to one year in prison and 10 years on probation.

Correctional officer unions are backing a bill introduced earlier this month that would change how mail is processed in federal prisons.

Students from Mater Dei Catholic School in Lansdale practiced their spelling this week, representing the Super Bowl LIX ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pushing back against Northampton County, saying in a statement the county “has a ...

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.

Imprisoned former Ald. Edward M. Burke's Burnham Committee gave the money to a fund for Justice Joy V. Cunningham days after ...

A 20-year-old Racine man pleaded no contest to a battery charge about seven months after he and another inmate allegedly attacked two other prisoners in the Racine County Jail.

The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

A New York City man has pleaded guilty to running a massive investment fraud scheme involving a planned commercial real estate project in the Buckhead area of Atlanta.

On the one hand, the deal freed three innocent Israeli men from a 16-month nightmare, further torment and possibly death. The ...

As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia’s troubled prison system, they may face an extra challenge: Conditions inside the wire appear to be getting even worse.