A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around ...

A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around ...

used a chain saw to carve her body into bits and dumped them in the Mississippi River. After serving nearly two decades in prison for the crime, Jim Klindt was scheduled for release on Saturday.

A bloodhound picked up the scent shortly after the “ Devil in the Ozarks ” escaped from a lockup in northern Arkansas. The ...

Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...

The fatal beatings in recent months of inmates Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi by prison staff, as well as the March wildcat ...

More than three years after a family of four from India froze to death while trying to enter the U.S. along a remote stretch ...

A leading medical group is warning of a rising number of cholera cases in war-torn Sudan as a new outbreak of the waterborne ...

The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had ...

Many of them were in jail awaiting trial or sentencing ... "He was in the exercise yard and somehow cut part of the chain-link fence, enough to shimmy through the hole," Morehouse Parish Sheriff ...

but his defense attorney mentioned he would be living in Florida once he's released from prison. Many of Suter's family ... during much of the hearing. A chain around his waist linked to cuffs ...