A proposal to close two state prisons has caused different reactions from lawmakers, incarcerated people and prison staff.

The escaped prisoner "took advantage of the liberation of his fellow inmate to hide himself in his luggage and get out," the ...

A Colorado man with previous drug-related convictions was recently sentenced to 40 more years in prison for his continued ...

Prison officials believe the man — a 20-year-old who was serving multiple sentences — escaped on Friday, July 11, and they ...

The escaped inmate was serving his sentence for multiple crimes, including suspected links to organised crime.

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...

A Winston-Salem man was sentenced to prison Friday after he pleaded guilty of causing the death of his girlfriend and two ...

Elyazid A, detained for gang-related murder and firearms offences, slipped past prison guards during his cellmate’s release ...

BERLIN (AP) — A German doctor went on trial in Berlin Monday, accused of murdering 15 of his patients who were under ...

"I took my punishment and I haven't been in trouble since. I didn't want to go from being a paratrooper from Margate to ...

Cambridge Historical Commission The Middlesex Country House of Correction in East Cambridge in 1938. Beginning in the early ...