While incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Duncan would help hundreds of prisoners file appeals for their cases and motions for improved treatment.

Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull co-wrote “The Jailhouse Lawyer,” about Duncan’s self-taught legal career while serving a prison sentence for a crime he was wrongfully convicted of committing.

UNION, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine are investigating the death of a paddleboarder near a campground in rural Maine as a homicide and asking the public for help finding the killer. The body of ...

Judy Robertson McDowell, a corrections lieutenant with 12 years of service, was taken into custody on July 6 for smuggling cellphones and SIM cards into the prison, according to the West Feliciana ...

A paper pamphlet interview “Message to the Movement” with journalist and current prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal titled, owned by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Angola Prison. The front cover of the ...

News / Northwest ICE transfers detainees from Alaska prison back to Washington stateQuestions remain around due process and conditions. Free ...

Michael Madsen, celebrated for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Kill Bill,’ died of cardiac arrest at 67.

A Dubuque County man was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison for distributing child porn. He was nabbed after sending three videos to an undercover law enforcement officer.

An Israeli attack on Tehran's Evin Prison on June 23 killed 71 people, according to a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary said.

JUNE 7, 1934 — Heine Henderson, the only convict still at large in the bloody Angola prison farm escape, was tentatively identified Wednesday night as one of the bandits who participated in the ...

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, a prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. As summer approaches ...