California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) plans to veto a bill that would prevent the state’s prison system from collaborating with ...

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.

The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside ...

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

How did the proposed prison make it to 2025 and what are the common questions that continue to be addressed in various ...

Michael Lee Wood has been in prison for 47 years, serving a life sentence for murder. But that’s only half of the story.

Following on from our infiltration of the prison and our first meeting ... brought us here will bellow from the cell block speakers, telling us that he plans to test our reaction to fear.

Top House budget writers released a $425 million spending bill to fund state-run shelters that seeks to temporarily cap the emergency assistance program at 4,000 families starting next ...

WASHINGTON — Three transgender women currently serving federal prison time sued Thursday to block an executive order that would require them to be moved to men’s facilities and end their ...

A troubled 22-year-old man fell to his death from a block of flats just two days after being 'unexpectedly' released from HMP Bristol. Leo Henshaw, a serial offender who had recently been charged with ...