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 ...

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 ...

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

Everyone is safe, one officer sustained a minor injury and returned to duty,” the state Department of Corrections said.

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...

A 65-year-old Hemet man was sentenced today to 15 years and eight months in federal prison for collecting thousands of images and videos of child pornography and manipulating a 12-year-old girl ...

The cell where Harold Shipman was held in a top security prison was said to be 'haunted' after his suicide in the 'Monster Mansion'. He had been moved into Wakefield Prison's cell D336 ...

YOLO COUNTY, California (KPIX) — The family of a twice-convicted child molester believes the California law that has now freed him from prison should not exist in the first place. Kevin Ellis ...