Like local jails nationwide, Montana's small holding facilities have become institutions of last resort as patients in mental ...

Prosecutors have reduced a felony misconduct charge against a former Wisconsin prison warden implicated in two inmate deaths ...

The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade has been named the new U.S. attorney for the state.

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported.

A homeless Montana man whose conviction for sex assault was overturned won a $27.75 million judgment for a vicious beating he took in prison. A ...

A Kansas City man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in a 2021 shooting that ...

Melisha Johnson, a single mother, faced a 12-year prison sentence for writing bad checks, but found redemption through ...

Tourists traveling to the Land of the Free are being locked up upon landing. James Liddell has detailed some of the most high ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Longtime South Carolina Corrections Director Bryan Stirling has been appointed as the U.S. Attorney for ...

New research finds 64 people died while in custody or the care of the state last year, which is the equivalent of more than four deaths a week.