A new FBI report says violent crime in the United States fell 4.5% last year while property crime dropped 8% from the year ...

The 32-year-old was shot outside a fire station and later died, police said.

Two guards from the Los Angeles County state prison were hospitalized after an inmate allegedly stabbed them Sunday night. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said prisoner ...

On Tuesday, a judge sentenced former Bridgeport Board of Education chair Jessica Martinez to "time served" for lying to a federal grand jury. She now plans to testify against former state Sen ...

A Lancaster city man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years in prison for stabbing a man in the chest at Dominion Pizza in July 2022.

Trinidad and Tobago has extended a state of emergency after the attorney general said the prison system has been compromised. He blamed prison officers and even attorneys of helping inmates ...

A man has been sentenced to prison in the 2020 fatal shooting of two people in Salem County. James T. Bundy, of Quinton Township, was sentenced to 16 years in state prison on Friday, court records ...

Arizona’s first private prison is again owned by the company that built it in the mid-1990s and then sold it to the state in 2013 for $150,000.

A Sioux Falls jury ordered a former state prison warden to pay $105,000 in damages to an inmate after a federal civil rights trial.

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — An inmate at Wisconsin's women's prison accused of brutally beating her cellmate to death will spend the rest of her life behind bars.

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of 42-year-old inmate Brian Bell, who was housed at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup.

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of dollars ...