Cockroach-infested London prison held inmates illegally - The chief inspector of prisons also said the backlog in sentencing ...

A Pahoa man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for burglary and assault. Frank William Funes, 43, was sentenced for ...

After 16 years in Michigan lockups, award-winning poet and writer Demetrius Buckley had to relearn how to be an active ...

Timothy Taylor pleaded guilty to killing his ex-wife while on the run from a murder charge in the death of his current wife.

Hong Kong tightened prison rules, allowing authorities to restrict visits, including those by certain lawyers and religious ...

Since being released from prison, Ty Mathis' mission has been to help people not to follow in his old footsteps.

An aerial view of the former prison on Alcatraz Island, with San Francisco in the background. Photo: Kirby Lee/ ...

A longtime resident says he’s leaving because “Florida is being paved, asphalted and mismanaged to the point that all the ...

It’s been nearly three decades since the murder of Manzano High School running back Ricky Camingo, but the man convicted of ...

German authorities have arrested a Libyan war crimes suspect accused of being a senior official for a notorious prison where inmates were routinely tortured and sometimes sexually abused, the ...

As a Florida Baptist pastor and theologian, one of our core Christian convictions is the human dignity of every person.

A felon who once posed as a drug task force agent was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for passing counterfeit $50 ...