A woman in her 20s serving time at Cheongju Women's Correctional Institution died after an apparent suicide attempt, ...

A bill requiring the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to designate restrooms, changing areas and sleeping quarters ...

Senate bill 418, which aims to protect the privacy rights of incarcerated women, has been signed into law by Governor Kevin ...

A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped has been arrested and accused of helping facilitate the ...

Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, her former sixth-grade student, attracted headlines for decades and got married 20 ...

When a formerly incarcerated “troubleshooter for the mafia” looked for a second career he chose the thing he knew best. He ...

In a letter to a South Dakota judge about Rattling Leaf’s death, the prison warden said the prisoner was found unconscious on ...

On the seventh day of Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial, the rapper had a four-word message to the crowd seated ...

The State of Indiana executed a 45-year-old man on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of a police officer, making him the 17th ...

The State Department of Corrections usually transfers inmates from OJC about four times a month, and almost always on a ...

An Akron, Ohio, man could face up to a 22-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in a defraudment case on Monday in ...

Ritchie was sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of Beech Grove officer William Toney. A slew of last-minute appeals ...