Jacob Smith has been in prison for two decades but he and other inmates are still taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic ...

Video of a fight inside the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton is making rounds on social media, raising concerns ...

More than two dozen incarcerated men were invited to participate in the father-daughter dance based on good behavior.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is leading a 23-state coalition urging the Federal Communications Commission to allow ...

A federal jail with a documented history of power outages, staffing shortages and detainee complaints just got two more high-profile detainees.

On February 16, 2000, Scott Favreau, then 17, committed a crime that shattered a family and shocked the state of Vermont. In the early hours of the morning, he walked up to his foster mother, who was ...

The Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston opened its gates for a different kind of visit last week as it hosted its first-ever ...

The Trump administration is escalating efforts to crack down on gangs that move illicit drugs into the United States, with deadly military strikes at sea and measures to toughen up borders taking ...

Lawmakers in Arizona prioritize funding for prison oversight and criminal justice reform, with a focus on improving conditions and oversight.

WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County Assistant District Attorneys Robert S. Walker and Julian Truskowski were on the losing end last month when a jury acquitted one of two state corrections officers in ...