Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

A feature built into the body cameras worn by Marcy prison guards allowed state corrections officials to retrieve footage hours after the incident.

The Antrim County Sheriff’s Office announced an unexpected death of an inmate in the Antrim County Jail on Friday, Februar ...

Her proposals include a new unit called The Future of Prisons in New York State that would create a strategy for safer ...

State prison offender Anthony Richards has died. According to the Department of Corrections, Richards died at the Jameson ...

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

Two days after the Syracuse men’s basketball team suffered its worst loss of the season, former Syracuse men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim asked for patience with his replacement and provided his ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...