Shinn said the unit at the state prison at Perryville, the only one that houses women, has 67 more inmates than operating capacity. “Our only option is putting people on the floor,” he said.

PERRYVILLE — Investment firm Johnson & Niswonger at 27 W. St. Joseph St. in Perryville is allegedly under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. No one from the federal agency ...

PERRYVILLE – A 19-year-old man remained jailed Wednesday after officers confiscated a loaded handgun during a traffic stop that also resulted in drunken-driving charges against him, according to ...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. (HEARTLAND WEEKEND) - Perryville Mayfest is celebrating 40 years with lots of fun events this Wednesday through Saturday. According to organizers, this year’s theme is Wizard of ...

Bell, a former correctional officer at Louisiana Women's Prison, had sacrificed her job to care for Kayson when his birth mother Katie, who was imprisoned at the time, asked her to take the child ...

A mom in Arizona was sentenced to prison in her children’s deaths, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A mom accused of killing her two elementary school-aged children with a meat cleaver ...

An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who entered the U.S. illegally.

HE DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. CHEATLE PLEADED NO CONTEST TO MANSLAUGHTER A One of the men accused in a deadly Omaha shooting will serve decades in prison. Wah Say was sentenced to 80 to 107 years in ...

ALCATRAZ – Visitors to the prison here had mixed reactions Monday to President Donald Trump’s expressed desire to once again house hardened criminals in the notorious former federal prison.

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that ...