A federal judge ruled last week that claims could proceed against five federal prison employees who allegedly attacked their ...

Lamarion Wright, a 19-year-old Peoria man, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of Christopher L. Tillman near the now-demolished Taft Homes, despite pleading guilty to murder in ...

Immigrants being held inside a federal prison in northeast Kansas and their attorneys reported an unsanitary, inequitable and unhealthy environment that has left people, even those who have won their ...

Hardin escaped Sunday from the North Central Unit — a medium-security prison also known as the Calico Rock prison — by impersonating a corrections officer "in dress and manner," according to a court ...

Law officers searched Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for an ex-police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison by impersonating a guard and walking out through a gate a guard opened for him.

Investigators at the time did not release a motive for the killing and Hardin was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He is also serving 50 years in prison for the 1997 rape of an elementary school ...

PORT HADLOCK — Naval Magazine Indian Island will conduct a security training exercise Wednesday. Training activities will take place near the installation’s main gate and the pier. They will include ...

A key House committee endorsed minimum mandatory prison terms for drug sellers who cause death or possess significant amounts of fentanyl, but with an escape hatch that would let a ...