A South Shore man will spend time in federal prison for his role in a disturbing online animal abuse ring.Garrett Fitzgerald, ...

The South Dakota Department of Corrections still needs to hire about 133 employees for the Level III secure facility, which ...

Framingham, Massachusetts's only female prison, said she was locked away after reporting a transgender inmate raped her.

Records: Two inmates were charged Jan. 6 after another was sexually assaulted at the Davidson County Correctional Development ...

Marie Scott had been incarcerated since 1973 for felony murder. Gov. Josh Shapiro commuted her life sentence in June.

From a prison cell just inches away, Chris Watts detailed how he brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has temporarily left a prison in Brasilia for medical examinations after hitting his head. Police escorted him to a hospital on Wednesday for brain scans.

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

Lines died from drug withdrawal in the Las Colinas women’s jail in May, a day after her arrest. Dean, who suffered from ...

A magistrate judge who presides in Pittsburgh has recommended that a major portion of a lawsuit brought on behalf of Blair County Corrections Officer Rhonda Russell, slain while in the line of duty in ...

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