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.

Prison Nurse Allegedly Poisoned Husband to Marry Inmate Serving Time for Murder. Now She's a Convicted Murderer, Too Amy Murray, 46, took an Alford plea for allegedly poisoning her husband and ...

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.

Kristina Jacobson was sentenced to life in prison without opportunity for parole Thursday after being found guilty of raping an infant and other sex crimes.

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A proposed new men’s prison in Nebraska drew a $313 million bid from Hausmann Construction of Lincoln, Nebraska, the state Department of Corrections said. The… ...

Staffers in Washington's only women's prison repeatedly used excessive force, according to a report from the state's Office of the Corrections Ombuds.

Israel struck Iran’s most notorious prison in its latest airstrikes Monday, as dramatic footage showed a missile slamming into its entrance.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said it will decide whether prison officials can be sued for violating the religious rights of an inmate in a 2020 case involving a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks ...

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is seeking to cancel $500 million for a planned federal prison on a former mine in Eastern Kentucky.

At a Georgia prison notorious for drug smuggling, 23 cases in four years were dismissed because the suspected drugs never made it to the state crime lab ...

Former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has begun serving an 11-year federal sentence for bribery and corruption charges at a medium-security prison in Schuylkill County, Pa.