Jimmie Duncan was released on bond in Louisiana after evidence used to convict him in the murder of his former girlfriend's ...

Two French prisoners escaped from jail after sawing through the bars of their cells and using bedsheets to get out of the ...

Fatal stabbing near Times Square: A 22-year-old man from Rhode Island was stabbed at about 1 a.m. at the corner of West 49th ...

State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to ...

An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m.

"Inmates would always say if the public ever found out what the women's federal penitentiary was all about, there would be a ...

A Louisiana inmate who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail after his conviction was overturned.

The Justice Department has so far transferred 10 of 37 former death row inmates to the nation's 'supermax' prison, and it ...

Nick Jacobson won a settlement after sepsis nearly killed him in jail. Now he's using that money to help other inmates access ...

Fuse is accused of giving drugs to Anthony Richards, who died of a drug overdose in February at the South Dakota State ...

BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana First) — For the first time ever, a dance involving inmates and their daughters took place ...