Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin continue their fight for justice 32 years after they were arrested for the ...

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, James "Whitey" Bulger, and the "Birdman of Alcatraz" all served time at the high-security prison.

Shemp died in 1955 at age 60. His death certificate says the cause was a heart attack, but some believe it was a cerebral ...

Mr. @NicolasMaduro, you have said on numerous occasions that you want the Venezuelans back and free,” Bukele wrote. “Unlike ...

The Louisiana Republican made a similar argument when he pushed for a budget resolution in February that would cut at least ...

THREE Guyanese men who spent just over 39 years in prison, having been found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of a man in South Trinidad in 1985, have been released. On Wednesday ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County commissioners aren’t showing interest in building a new prison on a light industrial ... focusing on the pros and cons of three potential sites.

An 18-year-old Brunswick woman on Thursday was ordered to serve three years in prison for stabbing a teen girl she used to be friends with. Sophia Karrina Judd pleaded guilty on April 8 to one ...

As reported in the first three parts of this series, January and February were brutal months in the prison. By the end of February, prisoners had reportedly started fires in a couple of dorms.