A Middle Tennessee prison is on lockdown after a riot broke out overnight at the facility injuring at least three inmates and one correction guard, officials said. The melee took place at the ...

METAMORA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — The Metamora football team is under new leadership but leader isn’t new to the team. Or to Metamora. New coach Nick Delinski is overseeing the Redbirds’ summer ...

"The Underground Railroad in Metamora," a documentary highlighting local abolitionist activities, will debut June 22 at Metamora high school.

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

The notorious director of a brutal Iranian jail escaped just before airstrikes, after Israeli sources contacted his son with a warning: have your father open the prison doors, or he will be targeted.

Prison Nurse Allegedly Poisoned Husband to Marry Inmate Serving Time for Murder. Now She's a Convicted Murderer, Too Amy Murray, 46, took an Alford plea for allegedly poisoning her husband and ...

Israel struck Iran’s most notorious prison in its latest airstrikes Monday, as dramatic footage showed a missile slamming into its entrance.

Staffers in Washington's only women's prison repeatedly used excessive force, according to a report from the state's Office of the Corrections Ombuds.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while he was incarcerated.

A DeSoto woman has been sentenced today for conspiracy to commit wire fraud involving COVID-19 relief funds, according to a news release.

Jury wanted death, but judge chose life in prison for love triangle murder ‘mastermind' Last June, eight out of 12 jurors recommended a death sentence instead of life in prison for Ysrael Granda ...