The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were shaved by guards in ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction will be reducing the number of inmates at privately-run Trousdale Turner in the wake ...

A former Fulton County jail guard has been indicted on federal civil rights charges. Prosecutors say she used her Taser ...

Director Wynnie Testamark described the request as a “strategic investment in safety, rehabilitation and human dignity,” but ...

Escaped Arkansas inmate Grant Hardin, known as “Devil in the Ozarks,” has been taking into custody, according to the Izard ...

R. Kelly sought house arrest after an inmate claimed prison officials sent him to kill the singer and offered freedom in ...

R. Kelly is serving his 30-year prison sentence as a result of his convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges ...

R. Kelly overdosed on prescription medication given to him by prison staff last week, an incident that landed him in the ...

Three decades since mistakenly gunning down two people in a revenge killing and three weeks from his execution, Michael Bell ...

An anti-drug smuggling policy has slowed the delivery of time-sensitive court documents as prison staff read letters ...

Cazenovia native Anne Burrell, a celebrity chef and Food Network star, has died. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) ...