Two police officers are on paid leave after the death of an Ohio man who was handcuffed and left facedown on a barroom floor.

The Chester County Prison continues to operate without a permanent replacement for its former warden, who resigned a day before convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante escaped from the facility and drew ...

Lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.

Harvey Weinstein is incarcerated in New York at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest ...

A white supremacist leader from California was sentenced to 44 months in prison Friday for conspiring to make death threats ...

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife has confided in friends that she is convinced she will go to prison because she is short ...

Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by ...

The US Census counts incarcerated people as residents of prisons, not their home towns — with undemocratic results.

Assailants gunned down the chief warden of an Ecuador prison Sunday as citizens across the nation cast ballots on proposed ...

President Joe Biden says he is willing to debate Donald Trump later this fall. Biden's comment Friday is the most definitive ...

A couple who lives near the site where the state plans to build a $350 million prison asked the City Council to rethink the ...

PONTIAC, Mich. — A judge sentenced the parents of a Michigan school shooter to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for ...