Lawyers for hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs are asking a federal appeals court in New York to order his immediate release from prison.

Shiloh Walker was serving a sentence of up to six years for reckless driving, the Nevada Department of Corrections said.

Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing the end of his third stint in an Oregon correctional facility on drug charges, he was thinking about what life on the outside would be like yet again.

Authorities say three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta had help from friends on the outside. Authorities say ...

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

Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including one who was being held on a murder charge, used jail phones ...

A restaurant inside California State Prison Solano provides a one-of-a-kind training program that provides opportunity and a sense of purpose, as well as skills training.

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

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 ...