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 ...

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 ...

James Collins, 69, persuaded a 17-year-old to engage in sexual activity and admitted to posing as a teen to try to meet up ...

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 ...

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 ...

National Guard members deployed in New York prisons have endured unacceptable treatment, including female members filmed changing clothes and exposure to noxious fumes from makeshift drug use, The ...

New York’s prisons are teeming with aging inmates at increasing costs to the taxpayer, and people are no safer from crime, the state’s chief judge said Monday as he pushed for legislation that would ...