A fire occurred at Auburn Correctional Facility over the weekend, the state Department of Corrections and Community ...

Between the ages of 14 and 17, Mikal spent over 1,800 hours in solitary confinement in Virginia — more than 75 days. At that ...

Taxes aren't exactly anyone's favorite topic, but ignoring taxes can land you in some serious trouble. While most people who miss a payment or two won't see the inside of a jail cell, there ...

Chief Justice John Roberts has agreed to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man ...

Linda Carman was a 54-year-old woman from Vermont who went on a fishing trip with her son to Block Island in September 2016 but never returned.

Some lawmakers are taking a stand against contraband cellphones in U.S. prisons with new legislation aimed at addressing the ...

The largest high-security jail in Europe houses politicians, activists, journalists and artists, as well as ordinary felons.

In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin's death row ... hundreds of death row inmates fell sick as ...

A push for a law change that would allow prisons to deploy cell phone jammers is growing, with officials and organizations ...

Wenderson de Souza, 30, 'fell sick' in his jail cell Sunday and was rushed to a prison system hospital, where he died. Police said that while de Souza had a stab wound to his neck at the time of ...

In January 2008, Thompson flooded a cell block at the Union County jail and threw feces at three detention officers, according to a court case. He was convicted of malicious conduct by a prisoner.

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...