Legendary movie director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, wanted to screen "Stand by Me" at a state prison in Brazoria ...

For the first time in more than half a century, Marie Scott is free. Scott, 72, who served more than 52 years in prison for ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child ...

With the recent purchase of the former Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro, Kerwin Pittman is laying claim to an unusual ...

It takes intense effort to teach service dogs the skills they need to help people with disabilities or alert them to ...

Kerwin Pittman once walked the halls of prison as an inmate, but now he’s planning on turning his own prison into a place of ...

Former inmates have opened up about what life is really like behind bars after a law-abiding citizen asked about the biggest ...

Former inmates have shared what it’s actually like living behind bars after a curious, law-abiding citizen asked about the ...

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

Across the country, dozens of organizations connect people on the outside with death row inmates through pen pal programs.

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

What it’s intended to do is to lock up the most dangerous sexual offenders until they are safe to rejoin society,” a state ...