At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk ...

Federal and state governments offset budget shortfalls by forcing incarcerated laborers to work to maintain the very prisons ...

Corrections officers may be "peace officers" but they aren't "certified law enforcement officers," a judge ruled Friday.

An El Paso woman will spend a decade in federal prison for holding hostages near the New Mexico-Texas state line. Valerie ...

An inmate at the state prison outside Santa Fe was stabbed Wednesday morning, and two other inmates at the facility have been charged in the attack. The victim — 35-year-old Rasheed Ahmad Brown — was ...

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison, arousing few suspicions of an attempt to escape until he and a fellow ...

On June 11, 1962, three prisoners escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison, a former US military base located on a small ...

More than a week after 10 prisoners conducted a daring escape out a bathroom wall in a New Orleans jail, two inmates remain ...

Six journalists in U.S. prisons react to Trump’s proposal to send incarcerated U.S. citizens to foreign prisons.

More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have died in prison since Russia’s full-scale invasion three years ago. Abuse inside Russian ...