In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Governor Larry Rhoden calls it “gothic” and studies have shown it’s outdated and unsafe. Photos show a view of the current ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there.

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

Switzerland's top criminal court on Friday convicted a multinational company for the first time, ruling against commodities ...

Angola, USA” and Stanley Nelson’s “Attica,” building on their insights. And it infiltrates the world of prison with an ingenuity, and emotional directness, made possible (in this case ...

SIOUX CITY -- A Sioux City man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for possession of a sawed-off shotgun and another gun charge. Conrad Lyons, 36, pleaded guilty in August in U.S ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

An Omaha man was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for distributing photos and videos of children and infants being sexually abused in a case called “one of the worst” by a federal judge.

Robert Badgerow has always been a problem. He was creepy and violent in the years before he raped and murdered Diane Werendowicz.