Freed from restrictions, Jafar Panahi returns with the nail-biting 'It Was Just an Accident,' inspired by his own experience ...

Staff and inmates have long complained the 111-year-old prison is outdated, but it plays a critical role in Minnesota’s prison ecosystem. Minnesota will shut down the state’s aging Stillwater ...

Calvin Crew was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the fatal shooting of 38-year-old Christina Spicuzza in February 2022 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once ...

One of six New York state prison guards indicted on murder charges in connection with the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. Christopher Walrath ...

A Los Angeles judge resentenced Lyle and Erik Menendez to life with the possibility of parole, which could lead to their freedom after decades in prison. By Tim Arango Matt Stevens and Jacey ...

Judge Sam Medrano officially handed the gunman over to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to serve the rest of his life in prison. "Sheriff, please make arrangements to get him to the Texas ...