Overcrowded Nebraska prisons force some inmates to share cells that were designed for just one person. Experts say this can ...

Federal authorities on Monday charged David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union California, in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to impede an officer tied ...

Kenyan police have tear gassed activists twice as they marched to the main police station in the capital Nairobi during a ...

Oklahoma prosecutors will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing ...

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

Prison officials found an improvised weapon at the scene after 30 inmates allegedly joined the assault on a convicted murderer.

Serial killer Richard Ramirez died 12 years ago13. Here's everything to know about how Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. the so-called ...

HUNDREDS OF INCARCERATED PEOPLE at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center are bracing themselves for unexpected transfers to other ...

Families across dozens of countries are preparing this week as another hurricane season begins. However, a new study reveals ...

About the same time William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were defending the Alamo in San Antonio in 1836, a prison ...

A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali has sentenced a British man to 10 months in jail for drug offenses after a ...