Nine men are charged in connection with a fatal stabbing at the prison, which the Trump administration has nicknamed the ...

A Miami-Dade corrections officer was charged Friday after video surfaced that appears to show him punching and beating an inmate inside a county jail. The footage, recorded inside the facility and ...

A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants detained for living in the U.S. illegally after a nearly yearlong ...

Horace Cowan, a former Camden man convicted of a 1990 homicide, won a state Supreme Court dispute over his long wait for ...

The bill advanced out of the House Judiciary Committee on a 7-4 vote along party lines, following intense scrutiny from Colorado legislators on both sides of the aisle.

A death investigation is underway after a woman in custody at the Vigo County Jail died early Tuesday, according to the Vigo ...

Cuba’s government says it will release 51 people from the island’s jails in an unexpected move. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the release in the upcoming days stems from a spirit ...

An investigator with knowledge of the case estimated the total value of the cash, cars and jewelry may be as much as $7 million. Five years on, the question of who gets that value is only now being ...

A conversation with Paul Bocanegra is awash in cognitive dissonance. How, I wonder, could the congenial middle-aged man sitting across from me at a coffee shop, apologizing profusely for being a few ...

A Jefferson City man was in the Cole County Jail, accused of trying to break into several cars in a parking lot.Jefferson ...