A civilian worker at Arizona State Prison in Tucson is suing the state in federal court after she was allegedly beaten and raped by an inmate while working in the prison kitchen. The 23-year-old ...

They emerged wearing stained grey prison jumpsuits and exhibiting signs of years of detention. Several of them looked tired and frail as they made the short walk from the bus to the European ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program (BCPEP ... are rare,” Conway said. Conway believes that BC faculty, who teach all the courses in the program, have been instrumental in enhancing its ...

A 34-year-old New York man caught in a traffic stop west of York on Interstate 80 with more than $220,000 in stolen checks has been sentenced to three years and four months of federal prison time.

A 74-year-old Nash County woman has been ordered to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole for the fatal beating of her eight-year-old granddaughter at the woman’s residence in ...

In slickly produced videos, prisoners in boxer shorts are marched into prison yards and made to sit nearly atop each other. They are packed into cells without enough bunks for everyone.

A local district court judge heard testimony from a woman who was stalked and shot at in Killeen before sentencing the defendant to years behind bars. Ray Mills Abel, 48, of Harker Heights, had ...

Louisiana is challenging a federal decision to slash the cost of many phone calls from prison, which advocates cheered as a way for loved ones to help incarcerated people better reintegrate into ...

A 40-year-old man caught at an Interstate 80 rest stop with 55 pounds of cocaine bound for Omaha has been sentenced to just under four years in federal prison. Nicandro Garcia-Perez pleaded guilty ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A total of 29 people have been sentenced to a combined 378 years in prison after being involved in a drug trafficking ring in southern Indiana. According to the U.S. Department of ...