The British government said criminals could earn earlier release under a new program to cut the prison population, citing Texas as an inspiration. By Lizzie Dearden Reporting from London In ...

PUBLIC SHAME. AND WHAT THIS ALL MIGHT MEAN. TODAY, HE WAS SENTENCED TO THREE AND A HALF TO SEVEN YEARS IN STATE PRISON. FORMER SENIOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL JESSIE O’NEILL TELLS US ...

A movie armorer convicted in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western movie “Rust” was released from a New Mexico prison on Friday after completing an ...

In December 2000, seven prisoners serving time for violent crimes ranging from murder to child abuse escaped from a maximum-security prison unit near Kenedy, Texas, resulting in the state’s most ...

Grant Hardin, 56, escaped on Sunday from a high-security prison in Arkansas, where he was serving a decades-long sentence for first-degree murder and rape. By Ali Watkins and Mark Walker A manhunt ...

A former police chief who was convicted of rape and murder escaped from the prison where he was serving a 30-year sentence on Sunday, correction officials said. Grant Hardin had been at North ...

As law officers search Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin ...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the defunct crypto exchange FTX, could be released from prison in December 2044, more than four years earlier than his original sentence called for ...

NEW ORLEANS — A maintenance worker at Orleans Parish Prison was arrested Monday night on accusations of helping facilitate the escape of 10 inmates during a jailbreak last week, WWL Louisiana ...

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their un-air-conditioned cells during the summer. The suit claims that the ...

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

Guards in Costa Rica have intercepted an unusual prison drug delivery, catching a cat as it jumped over the periphery fence at night with marijuana and crack taped to its body. The black-and-white ...