David Leonardo, 39, was originally sentenced to 15 years to life for killing Priscilla Rose Hernandez in 2011.

The Bay Area man was killed last week in a California prison where he'd been serving a life sentence for murdering a close ...

When film star James Stewart went on location in 1948 at Stateville prison's notorious roundhouse while portraying a Chicago ...

New York City’s only federal prison added yet another high-profile musical talent to its inmate roster Wednesday.

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at ...

The cruelty of Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act plays out over and over again as state seizes inmate assets.

Minnesota Correctional Facility - Stillwater, the state's largest prison, is on temporary lockdown after several staff ...

A sheriff who participated in the infamous manhunt for escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat in 2015 compared it to ...

State corrections officials have launched a homicide investigation after a convicted killer from Alameda County died ...

An Arizona woman who physically assaulted three TSA agents at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport has been sentenced to four months in ...

Amber Higdon left the 3-week-old puppies trapped in a plastic tote on the side or a road on a day when temps reached 95 ...

Nine workers at a Minnesota prison fell ill and were hospitalized after being exposed to unknown synthetic substances ...