Newsweek has investigated where the country's best and worst ranked prisons are located. The map shows how each U.S. state ranks in relation to the correction outcomes of its prisons. The data was ...

There has been a decision to move an inmate from a case that gathered national attention here in New York State to a jail in ...

In the House of Mirrors, political captives were pushed to the brink of insanity and death. Some are telling their stories ...

Nauman Hussain had initially been at Clinton Correctional Facility but was moved to Coxsackie Correctional Facility. He has ...

Narges Mohammadi is protesting the prison’s denial of hospital treatment for her heart condition, her family said. By Farnaz Fassihi and Cassandra Vinograd The family of Narges Mohammadi ...

A Central New York man who worked as a pastor for decades has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for possession of child pornography. James H. Swanson, 59, of Rome, N.Y., was arrested ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mexico’s former public security chief sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison for taking bribes from drug cartel.

X/Kaurs of New York City Department of Corrections press secretary Annais Morales and DOC member Mariam Singh struggled with each other in a diva donnybrook that was finally stopped by two ...

has learned nothing in three decades in prison. Nothing, that is, except how to be a better and more manipulative sociopath, using her body and her imagination to rope in accomplices to help ...

Bureau of Prisons Says It's Adding Staff and Making Fixes at Jail Where Sean 'Diddy' Combs Is Held NEW YORK (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons says it has increased staffing in recent months ...

16, U.S. District Judge Brenda K. Sannes of the Northern District of New York confirmed the jury's verdict against state prison defendants in a civil rights lawsuit brought by inmate Wonder ...

The sheriff’s offices in Manatee, Lee, Pinellas and St. Johns counties said they have no plan to evacuate local jails. Other ...