A fence with barbed wire encircles the water tower across from the state women’s prison in Shakopee. A plain chain-link fence lines the Catholic cemetery. But five years after local ...

For Eli Rael, whose ancestors moved here in the late 1800s, it's always been simply "La Sierra," a communal mountain landscape where settlers and their descendants could graze livestock, hunt for food ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

YouTuber Ruhi Çenet was left stunned by the solitary confinement cell inside El Salvador's notorious maximum security prison, CECOT.

Shapiro’s predecessors closed three prisons over the past decade and opened one new one, Phoenix, in suburban Philadelphia.

The Trump administration has released scant information on the migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay. Human rights lawyers are ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted of bribery conspiracy, bribery, and wire fraud charges on Wednesday, but acquitted of several others, following a four-month ...

A man who bragged online about molesting his young relatives appeared in a West Palm Beach courtroom with the full support of ...

Bill Carlisle managed four solo robberies (three in a few months) in his extensive life of crime without injuring anyone. The ...