On Friday morning, a woman incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County tried to get help. The prison was on lockdown, and she’d been confined to her cell with little ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The former prison tailor who helped two killers escape a maximum-security New York prison was released Thursday after more than four years behind bars. Joyce Mitchell, 55, was released ...

It’s tough enough to find out you’re pregnant when you’re 16. On January 12, 2010, Isabella Crowell, who was 16, found out she was pregnant 15 minutes before Syracuse police placed her in handcuffs ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri is poised to launch its first-ever housing wing for prisoners with newborns. Jennifer Dumas watches her daughter, Codylynn, play in 2016 in Codylynn’s crib inside her room at ...

Six Labrador retriever puppies graduated from the Puppies Behind Bars program at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility last week.