Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

Court documents reveal the moments leading up to the murder of Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office corrections deputy Basil ...

This perpetrator cannot hope for any leniency. He must be punished and he must leave the country,” Chancellor Scholz said.

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

A woman suspected of killing three members of the same family by poisoning a Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison cell in Brazil. Deise Moura dos Anjos was found without vital signs during ...

A group of men, who have dubbed themselves The Brotherhood, decided the best way to help others caught up in jail is to bail ...

The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside Feb. 11.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...