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.

Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday.

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

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

A small watchdog agency over Ohio's adult and juvenile prisons would be drastically changed under the state budget bill.

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A proposed new men’s prison in Nebraska drew a $313 million bid from Hausmann Construction of Lincoln, Nebraska, the state Department of Corrections said. The… ...

The former general manager of the Foundry in Manchester has been sentenced to prison for stealing from the business.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some of the gangs South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley listed as tied to violence at the men’s prison in Sioux Falls have the largest gang presence in … ...

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 ...

Former corrections officers Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad became the ninth and 10th individuals charged in connection with alleged sexual abuse at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin.

A Blue Grass man will now serve nearly two decades in prison for producing child pornography.