Corrections officers conducting a routine shakedown of prison cells at the Tucker Max unit told Gregory Holt to step outside and strip down for a security search.

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.

The GEO Group-run detention center has sparked civil rights concerns in a historically Black community just a few miles away.

The idea that Franco somehow escaped prison time for dating a 14-year-old while sending money to her mother is astonishing and not likely to be so easily dismissed by MLB officials who will ...

The Supreme Court took up Monday a case on whether a former Louisiana inmate can receive damages from prison officials for forcibly shaving his dreadlocks despite his Rastafari beliefs. A lower co… ...

A Marion woman was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for falsely claiming her residence had damage from the derecho, and receiving small business loan funds for a business that did ...

TAMPA — The same jury that found Ronny Tremel Walker guilty of murdering 14-year-old Nilexia Alexander decided Friday that he should spend the rest of his life in prison.

Three more of the 10 inmates who busted out of a New Orleans facility in a high-profile jailbreak were recaptured in two different states, authorities said on May 26. Lenton Vanburen, Leo Tate ...

Julie Chrisley and Todd Chrisley have broken their silence on their pardons, revealing their wildly different reactions to the news on a podcast.

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.

US Marine sentenced to 7 years in prison for sexual assault in Japan The sexual assault case is the latest to strain relations between residents of Japan's Okinawa Islands and U.S. servicemembers.