The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to pay an outside consultant an estimated $550,000 over the next year to assess ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Women at the California Institution for Women reported sexually abusive and “sadistic” behavior during gynecology exams ...

A 22-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to four years in prison for helping rob a Secret Service agent in Tustin ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender ...

Lawyers say the death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy ...

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...

A federal judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a request to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three ...

A Tunisian court sentenced a number of top politicians, former officials and journalists to long prison terms on Wednesday, ...

Minh Quang Pham was accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Heathrow Airport in London in support of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch ...

Stephen Havrilka, 34, was sentenced to life in prison in connection to the death of a Rodeway Inn employee who was found ...

Detectives initiated an investigation at a New Haven daycare center after a child reportedly told her grandmother and mother ...