A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

There is a game camera trained on the entrance to the proposed prison site in Franklin County. It has captured mysterious ...

A restaurant inside California State Prison Solano provides a one-of-a-kind training program that provides opportunity and a ...

A recent National Academy of Sciences report criticized traditional ways of measuring success after individuals are released from prison that are entrenched in identifying failure by relying solely on ...

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington sentenced Gutierrez-Ochoa to 11 years and eight months in federal prison. Howell said the violent cartel, known by its Spanish-language acronym CJNG, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A Broward jury decided to give a convicted police killer life in prison without parole after deliberating for just a few hours on Monday. Twenty-two-year-old Jason ...

Because they make up what Justice Anthony Kennedy years ago called a “hidden world of punishment,” what goes on inside these ...

A former New York prison guard was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the beating death of inmate Robert Brooks.

A 23-year-old inmate at Jessup Correctional Institution died Saturday under suspicious circumstances, officials said. Deon Sheridan Smith Jr., who faced life in prison for felony murder, had been at ...

Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...

A Palm Bay man was sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 murder of his former roommate. Larry Bell Jr., 42, was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 61-year-old Bobby Knight ...