Siamak Namazi, an American who spent eight years wrongfully detained in Iran, has told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour of his ...

David Leonardo, 39, was originally sentenced to 15 years to life for killing Priscilla Rose Hernandez in 2011.

The cruelty of Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act plays out over and over again as state seizes inmate assets.

A sheriff who participated in the infamous manhunt for escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat in 2015 compared it to ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ed Burke, Chicago's longest-serving alderman, will head to prison Monday. . Burke will be saying goodbye to ...

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at ...

State corrections officials have launched a homicide investigation after a convicted killer from Alameda County died ...

Amber Higdon left the 3-week-old puppies trapped in a plastic tote on the side or a road on a day when temps reached 95 ...

Four men who were among the first rioters to assault police officers and the first to breach a security perimeter during the ...

Former "Jackass" star Bam Margera is back in prison after he allegedly violated his probation, court documents on Thursday ...

Malik Johnston defied repeated calls for his resignation from the Flemington Borough Council and his term on the governing ...