A 62-year-old woman was strangled to death while she was having a conjugal visit with her quadruple murder convict husband at a California prison, officials said.

Jamie Cooper, 33, escaped custody on Wednesday morning while being transported to Lancaster Magistrates' Court, and has now ...

The Indiana Dept. of Corrections is asking for the public’s help in tracking down an inmate who reportedly walked away from ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved SB157, allowing incarcerated individuals to attend their parole ...

Prison officials often say that strip searches are necessary to keep contraband, including weapons and drugs, outside of prisons. This is a worthy goal, but research suggests that strip searches don’t ...

Joshua Peikert, accused last year of plotting to kill two adults and two children, was convicted of a reduced charge in a ...

Six New York prison guards have been indicted for second-degree murder in the beating death of an inmate, captured on ...

A trial for a Louisville teen illuminated the chaos of a high-profile riot in Adair County and showed how systemic errors ...

In 2024, the FCC finally took a hatchet to this entire system. The Commission slashed the fees paid by inmates, it banned all ...

As a result of the ongoing mass arrests, El Salvador now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The proportion of its population that El Salvador incarcerates is more than triple that of the ...

The women said they were beaten and sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints by Central California Women’s Facility ...

An inmate accused of dealing the fentanyl that killed two men inside an Atlanta-area jail was sentenced to life in prison, ...