The Linkous family can trace its roots to a Revolutionary War POW who was hired out as an indentured servant to a Patriot leader in the New River Valley.

The Old Jail Museum sits in the heart of Jim Thorpe, a town once known as Mauch Chunk, nestled in the picturesque Lehigh Gorge. The contrast is immediate and jarring – outside, a charming Victorian ...

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

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Mystery surrounds an inmate’s escape nearly 100 years after he broke free from a North Carolina prison, historians said. “On ...

The world may know in the next few months whether triple-murderer Erin Patterson will fight the guilty verdicts handed down ...

Drugs have always been a problem in jails, but a devastating report today from the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor ...

A scathing new report has revealed how drones are regularly making deliveries of drugs into HMP Manchester with ...

Stone walls do not a prison make, but in Mansfield, Ohio, they’ve certainly made one of the most spine-tingling tourist attractions this side of the supernatural.

They include several pictures of the death cap mushroom-laced beef Wellingtons, and images of Patterson at Monash Hospital ...

The jury has delivered its unanimous verdict in one of the most-watched court cases ever. Here’s what was at play legally and what happens now.

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...