A 69-year-old man, who was convicted in a separate 2005 killing and is currently serving a life sentence in Arizona, was ...

The Adams County Sheriff's and Prosecuting Attorney’s offices in Eastern Washington are being sued for allegedly breaking the ...

Court battles and dealmaking are deciding the future of many of those last men at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, including ...

A Maryland inmate with Salisbury ties has been charged with trying to kill a correctional officer at Roxbury Correctional ...

There are unconfirmed reports of property losses as fire crews continue battling a blaze near a prison that started on New ...

A former Washington inmate is suing the state and prison officials after she says they forced her into a cell with a biological male who molested her.

NEW YORK -- Newly released video of a fatal New York prison beating shows correctional officers repeatedly pummeling a handcuffed inmate, striking him in the chest with a shoe and lifting him by ...

“Each position in that prison that was assigned to a correction officer had a correction officer in it,” Chambers-Smith said. OCSEA/AFSCME Local 11 President Chris Mabe said in an interview ...

TALLINN, Estonia — A court in Belarus convicted a well-known opposition activist and sentenced him to six years in prison, the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights group ...

MAPUTO, Mozambique. — At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country’s police chief said, as widespread ...

For Congress — and the larger Washington government apparatus — it’s a warning sign of things to come, of carefully laid plans being blown up by fiat of the world’s richest person.

Lisa Marie Stavish, 41, was found unresponsive in her cell early Sunday and despite life-saving measures was pronounced dead at 6:07 a.m., a prison news release states. Lycoming County Coroner ...