Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

The Dec. 11 death of a 50-year-old state prison inmate in Yuma is under investigation as a homicide.

When Andy’s Law, HB 338, is acted on in the Ohio Senate, legislators can and should remove the provisions that eliminate ...

The deaths occurred Sunday at a prison in the coastal city of Machala, Ecuador, after "the detonation of an explosive device" ...

At least 13 inmates were found dead Sunday at a southern Ecuadorian prison ravaged by violence in recent months, the ...

PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy described the prison where he spent 20 days as a noisy, harsh “all-grey” ...

Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of three former upstate New York prison guards charged in the deadly beating of inmate Robert Brooks last December at Marcy Correctional Facility. Mathew ...

Over two decades, a minimum-security prison aimed at helping inmates prepare to leave prison was a point of civic pride. Now, ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week. “We are creating an environment of failure, so people are prone to ...

Altoona man gets 50 years in prison for sexual abuse ...

Diddy's victory in his preferred prison request isn't as rosy as he may have expected. The music mogul desperately fought to serve his 50-month prison sentence in FCI Fort Dix after spending over a ...