A prisoner escaped from a courthouse in Northern Kentucky and was on the run for more than two hours July 21 before he was captured.

A transgender prisoner in Johannesburg is challenging prison authorities in the Equality Court, seeking gender-affirming care and fighting against discrimination that undermines her identity and ...

Hussain, 39, formerly of Rotherham and currently a serving prisoner, was found guilty of one count of rape. He was acquitted of two counts of raping the girl who was raped by the other two defendants.

A man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump last year at his Florida golf course will return to court Thursday to once again explain why he wants ...

Though it is almost forgotten today - suppressed, perhaps, by some squeamish historians - the Muslim trade in both black ...

A British woman on death row in India for murdering her husband has turned to creating art as an outlet to deal with her ...

Though the court agreed the guards had violated the Eighth Amendment rights of the prisoner, Trent Taylor, it immunized them from recourse, concluding that no prior case with near-identical facts ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. — A prisoner accused of beating her cellmate to death at Wisconsin's women's prison almost two years ago pleaded no contest Monday to homicide.

A formerly incarcerated man who has become a Pulitzer Prize winner details artwork used to change the way folks think about mass incarceration.

Authorities found Tulsiram Shende hanging near a window close to the storeroom of the painting department behind Barrack No. 4 in the small circular cell block of the prison. The jail authorities ...

A military appeals court ruled against an effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks.

Ramandeep Kaur Mann was sentenced to death by hanging after she was found guilty of colluding with her lover to murder her ...