South Dakota’s outsized prison death count extends beyond overdoses, and more than half the deaths have been preventable.

Three inmates who had escaped from a county jail just east of Atlanta are back in custody, according to a news release ...

A local habitual offender was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week after pleading guilty to felony drug and theft ...

The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office says Stevenson Charles, who is charged with murder, and two other inmates were discovered ...

"I've learned that the differences between right and wrong, good and evil are not as stark as we would like to believe. That ...

It comes after a report earlier this year found there was an 'alarming' flow of drugs into Parc Prison, some of which entered ...

A Little Rock teenager, identified as a killer by a distinctive hoodie emblazoned with a human skull, has been sentenced to ...

A 19-year-old who escaped from a French prison in November has been arrested, authorities have told the BBC. Yanik Touoibati ...

A manhunt is under way in Georgia for three detainees, including a man convicted of murder, who escaped from an Atlanta-area jail Monday morning. “We take this breach very seriously and are working ...

A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention centers are again operating. And beatings, extortion and other abuses have ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion robbery was put to death Thursday evening ...