President Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz as a prison faces major challenges due to the island's lack of wastewater treatment facilities. San Francisco may restrict sewage deliveries, complicating the ...

One of the most important monuments in the history of Rome is certainly the Mamertine prison, where Christian hagiography claims the apostles Peter and Paul were imprisoned in the Neronian era.

A month-long closure of 12th Street NW in Atlanta begins July 7 for sewer maintenance, impacting traffic and businesses.

Three more of the 10 inmates who busted out of a New Orleans facility in a high-profile jailbreak were recaptured in two different states, authorities said on May 26. Lenton Vanburen, Leo Tate ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was stripped naked, had his head shaved, beaten, forced to kneel for hours overnight, and lost over 30 pounds during his time at the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador, his ...

A former prison guard was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison on Thursday for sexually abusing three inmates at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu.

Judge faces backlash for sentencing an admitted rapist to probation The 20-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting four teenage women, and the judge called prison time ...

The idea that Franco somehow escaped prison time for dating a 14-year-old while sending money to her mother is astonishing and not likely to be so easily dismissed by MLB officials who will ...

The city says efforts have modernized Waterloo's wastewater system, ending years of sewer backups and reducing overflows.

The former Monessen man pleaded guilty in 1973 and was later convicted again following a trial in 1978 that resulted in his being sentenced to life in prison without parole for murder and an ...

The Hutchinson Correctional Facility was put on lockdown in May and June for excessive drug use, according to a Kansas state representative.

Wladimir Vera Villamizar, a 33-year-old welder, had a whole lung removed — an uncommon procedure that requires months of intensively managed recovery, according to doctors.