President Joe Biden pardons five people and commutes the sentence of two others who "made significant contributions to ...

A Maryland man who used the drug dependencies of multiple women to control and force them into commercial sex work, including ...

The son of an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards has filed a federal lawsuit.

The House of Delegates on Tuesday advanced a slate of proposed constitutional amendments that could enshrine voting rights, ...

BERRYVILLE — Clarke County is to receive some financial aid toward its efforts to turn part of the former Camp 7 prison property near White Post into a business park.

Gov. Brian Kemp is proposing a big burst of new spending on Georgia’s prisons. He wants to plan another new correctional ...

UTICA, N.Y. — A New York prison where a 43-year-old man died earlier this month after he was violently beaten by correctional officers will get a new superintendent, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday.

Rohde said, “staying calm and trying to get the ball to the middle,” was crucial in navigating NC State’s defense. “A lot of the time you’ll bring it up the sideline and they’ll come a ...

An inmate at Northern Nevada Correctional Center died on Monday, officials said. Tommy Duncan, 62, was serving 180 months to life with possibility of parole for sexual assault and kidnapping ...

He was subsequently beaten by correction officers. ALBANY — The New York agency overseeing state prisons has been ordered to expedite the deployment of fixed and body-worn cameras at all ...

Corrections officers at the state prison where their co-worker was slain on Christmas are turning off their body cameras and retaliating against inmates, denying them showers and serving them only ...