A correctional officer at a women’s prison in Alabama is charged with sex crimes against an inmate, officials said.

A former British soldier who is facing spying charges has admitted escaping from a London prison by clinging to the underside ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have rejected a measure on the November ballot that would have amended the state ...

A British soldier accused of passing sensitive information to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pleaded guilty on ...

One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

Proposition 6 would have banned the use of involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes. It was rejected by California ...

People who are incarcerated are often paid less than $1 an hour to fight fires, clean cells and do landscaping work at ...

The man responsible for operating the longest-running bitcoin money laundering service on the darknet was handed a 150-month ...

A prison sentence would be a headache for the president-elect, but he wouldn’t have to worry about serving any time until ...

A homicide investigation is underway after an inmate was found dead in his cell at Solano State Prison in Vacaville this week ...

Private prison executives imagined tracking “millions” of people electronically, transporting hundreds of thousands by plane, ...

During the hearing, Wells sat in a wheelchair, wearing shorts that revealed his left leg amputated below the knee.