When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

AUBURN — A Syracuse man has received prison time after being found with cocaine during a traffic stop in Auburn.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

An upstate prison was still locked down Thursday after guards retook control of three dorms following an inmate uprising ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office invited media to tour the Shelby County Jail. A CA reporter saw deteriorating conditions and broken infrastructure.

A museum whose mission extends beyond the history of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility to exploring incarceration in America today is expected to open this October in the village where […] ...

Federal financial aid is now available to students in three New York state prisons taking a collaborative program offered by Cornell University and Cayuga Community College.

Overcrowding at Washington’s biggest juvenile detention center has grown to crisis levels over the past year. A slew of bills ...

It has a mock-up prison cell, to be used as part of a therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation programme for ex-offenders to reflect in. The cell is also open to the public to show just how ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Two gang members in Massachusetts were sentenced to prison for their role in trafficking ... a digital scale, a cell phone, and $14,986 from the stash house.