Jermaine Donald, 42, who was jailed on charges of second-degree murder and other crimes before he escaped, was taken into custody in Texas with another inmate accused of fleeing the Orleans Justice ...

Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the ...

On Easter Sunday of 1993, more than 400 inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility there took over one of three main prison cellblocks. When the uprising in the L-block section ended 11 ...

DECATUR COUNTY, Ga. (WCTV) - Three South Georgia men were recently sentenced to life in prison for various sex crimes, according to the South Georgia Judicial Circuit Office of the District Attorney.

More New York state prisons could close this year after Gov. Kathy Hochul reached a budget agreement with legislative leaders. The 2025-26 state budget authorizes Hochul to close up to three prisons.

State Democrats agreed to close up to three prisons over the next year and put at least $500 million toward the continued deployment of National Guard troops to backfill prison guard shifts ...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump said he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay to "house America’s ...

The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons, according to the Federal ...

CNN's Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins noted that the prison was originally shut in the 1960s because it was three times more expensive to operate than other federal facilities ...