Joseph Mendoza's death at Salinas Valley State Prison was posted on social media. Lawyers say CDCR staff leaked it.

A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed ...

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

Ghislaine Maxwell plans to file a habeas corpus petition seeking release from Texas prison camp and will represent herself in ...

A Saginaw man professed his innocence on being sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for the brazen execution of ...

A former Connecticut gang member has been sentenced to life in prison after being indicted on dozens of charges, officials ...

The Miami Correctional Facility, dubbed the Speedway Slammer by the Trump administration, remained partly on lockdown week ...

The sentencing judge told Ronald L. Kinchen Jr. his homicide of Omar Morrow "doesn't get much more premeditated and ...

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has been sentenced to three more months in prison for violating his supervised release terms in a New ...

A gunman who killed a 19-year-old San Francisco man while trying to steal his mobile phone has been sentenced to 55 years to ...

For the first time since InvestigateWest exposed widespread sexual abuse by Idaho prison staff, the director of Idaho’s ...

El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...