After spending a decade as a crime reporter, CNN Hero Debra Des Vignes created the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, a ...

A new prison program in Texas is bringing some positive changes in the lives of most hardened criminals and death row inmates. As per the new program, ‘recreational time’ is being offered to criminals ...

A number of prison guards do not want to return to a troubled ward at Barwon Prison following a string of incidents earlier ...

A number of prison guards do not want to return to a troubled ward at Barwon Prison following a string of incidents earlier in the year.

CANTON, SD (KELO) — The man who abducted a woman from a Sioux Falls Wal-Mart before killing her will spend the rest of his life behind bars. A judge on Wednesday sentenced Amir Beaudion, Jr. … ...

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.

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

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.

The Supreme Court announced it will take up the case of a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards.

A independent report into the suspected gas leaks at Barwon Prison earlier this year suggests the cause of symptoms, which have resulted in two staff seeking compensation, could be psychological.