The recent escapes follow several other high-profile breakouts, like that of Danilo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who ...

When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have ...

It was the worst five days of my 15 years in prison. I experienced everything Denis experienced. Then something broke inside me. When the correctional officer wheeled the chow cart past my cell on ...

A still image from a security camera shows Hardin wearing a makeshift Department of Corrections uniform when he escaped.

You are stripped nude and pushed into the cell. Guards take your clothes ... Even officials were disgusted by the conditions inside the prison. In 1939, US Attorney General Frank Murphy condemned ...

Image: Sophy Ridge talking outside Preston Prison One prisoner I interviewed, in for burglary, was, until a few hours before, sharing his cell with his son. It was his son's first time in jail ...

Prison staff found Welte unresponsive in his cell, blood coming out of his nose ... on he had said others were trying to sell him drugs inside the prison. That, coupled with his longtime struggles ...

A cell phone video capturing a fight that appears to be in an Arizona prison was posted on social media. Prison officials ...

Gallows built to exactly replicate the original are now part of what visitors can see at the former Kansas State Penitentiary.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson says there are indications that the ten inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail received help in their escape from people in the department ...

Cheyton E. Styslinger, 25, of Brookville, who burglarized a home in DuBois, accepted a plea agreement and was sentenced to prison by President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman Tuesday ...