Italy may release up to around 10,000 people from prison, or about 15% of the total population of inmates, to ease ...

A 46-year-old American man accused of the murders of a 29-year-old woman and her baby has faced a preliminary legal hearing ...

The notorious director of a brutal Iranian jail escaped just before airstrikes, after Israeli sources contacted his son with a warning: have your father open the prison doors, or he will be targeted.

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 ...

Shanteari Young, a Baltimore County daycare owner who shot her husband when she learned he was sexually abusing children, has been released from prison.

Serious concerns over 'readily available' drugs, rising levels of violence and lax security at a Greater Manchester prison have been highlighted by an independent watchdog. Incredibly, a damning ...

Ex Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno, currently serving a short term for influence peddling and illegal party funding, on Friday urged Italy's politicians to visit Italy's jails and see for themselves the ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a religious rights case involving a Rastafarian man in its next term, which begins in October.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while he was incarcerated.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A proposed new men’s prison in Nebraska drew a $313 million bid from Hausmann Construction of Lincoln, Nebraska, the state Department of Corrections said. The… ...

A former prison nurse from Miller County entered an Alford plea Wednesday to charges including murder in the 2018 poisoning death of her husband.

A man convicted of murdering a mother and daughter in Luzerne County more than two decades ago has died in prison.