When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. It happened in ...

Investigators with the Richland County Sheriff's Department (RCSD) have arrested an Alvin S Glenn Detention Center guard ...

Everyone is safe, one officer sustained a minor injury and returned to duty,” the state Department of Corrections said.

A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates took over and injured three guards, just days after staffing ...

The rebellion at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County began around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, a union rep said.

Prosecutors issue an arrest warrant for the owner of a dog stuck in an unsecured kennel on a moving trailer in Lake County.

A judge sentenced Dazha Feaster to serve 20 years in prison for the 2020 death of the 17-year-old Granby High School student Asia Cowell.

One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 capacity (equivalent to almost half the UK’s current prison population), CECOT was built two years ago. It now houses many thousands of the ...

The director Charles Burnett’s deeply humane, singular film from 1999, starring James Earl Jones, is finally receiving a theatrical release. By Manohla Dargis Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy ...

NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF MARCH 2, 2005 In a decision that could have impact statewide, a state tax judge ruled against a petition filed by Allina Medical Clinic that its Litchfield ...