The ferry ride out to Alcatraz Island is, as ever, peak San Francisco cold. Even on this sunny June day, it’s cold. Even with ...

President Donald Trump has again breached the topic of reactivating Alcatraz as a federal prison, claiming that “conceptual ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

The president heads to “ Alligator Alcatraz ” on Tuesday. The evocative name refers to a detention, processing and ...

Another swarm of Africanized honeybees has been collected and euthanized in Alabama, reports AL.com’s Mike Cason. Last year ...

Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

He was also ordered to pay $100 in special assessments. Once he is released from prison, he will be referred to immigration officials for deportation proceedings, the release said.

Men at the Limestone Correctional facility are placed back onto the chain gang when they leave the prison grounds for their daily labor as road crews in this photo taken just outside of Huntsville, ...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. -- A Mexican national was sentenced Wednesday to four months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after having previously been deported. Jorge Luis Avila ...