A system designed to protect state inmates who wish to leave gangs has backfired, leading to increased violence fueled by ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections unanimously voted Friday to rename the North Central Unit in Calico Rock in honor of outgoing Chairman Benny Magness and to ban externally purchased books, magazines ...

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 ...

Anthony Landry, 59, was sentenced to life in prison on Dec. 11 for the May 2024 murder of Jeffrey Limmer, 46, in Houston Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Five transgender inmates have filed a lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections and the Utah Department of Health & Human Services, challenging a new state law that bans ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) - Donna Adelson has been moved to a new correctional institution closer to her home in South Florida, according to officials. Adelson was initially held at the Florida ...

Australia’s social media ban for youths took effect Wednesday, a landmark move that’s drawn global attention at a time governments are increasingly enacting rules to shield minors from toxic content ...

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 ...

All the essential ingredients to kick-start life as we know it have now been found in samples from the asteroid Bennu. This shows that asteroids could have delivered all the prerequisites for life to ...

A woman convicted in the killing of her romantic rival in Tamarac back in 2022 has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. The sentence was handed down Monday against 31-year-old Sakiyna ...