Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with ...

Arizona announced it would join Reentry 2030 as a GOP lawmaker opened a probe into three alleged murders at the sprawling ...

more than 320 inmates were killed in a fire at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus – the largest prison fire in U.S. history. Some of the inmates burned to death in their cells at the prison ...

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changing into bright yellow worker's clothing, seeming to blend in after the shooting. Before his escape, Hernandez was housed at the Kern Valley State Prison in Delano.

More than 100 inmates escaped a Chad prison during a shoot-out that left three people dead, and wounded a state governor visiting the facility, officials told AFP on Saturday. The break-out ...

An exclusive excerpt of Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan, which tells the untold story of Rosemary Leary and her life with the ...

In 1990, the closure of the Virginia State Penitentiary ended nearly 200 years of holding state inmates in downtown Richmond.

Hernandez escaped from custody on Dec. 2, shortly after arriving for a court appearance in Delano, California, according to the state Department ... 80 years to life in prison with the possibility ...

A new documentary screened at the Charlottesville Tom Tom Festival shows "education literally is the thing that keeps people ...