When Illinois shuttered the century-old maximum security facility last year, nearly four of every five inmates went to less-secure sites.

United States Attorney Zachary Cunha said that a 49-year-old former Rhode Island man and career offender has been sentenced ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Garden Time is giving inmates, just released from prison, planting soil and young trees, and putting them to work.

A football story in honor of the Super Bowl The Greenwood Cove Townies Semi-Pro football team was going to prison. Not that ...

James Silvia, who has twice escaped from the state prison, will get a parole hearing. He once covered himself in hand lotion and slipped out a window of the supermax prison.

The Blizzard of 1978 was the worst snowstorm in Rhode Island's history. "They wanted it to be great," the billionaire says ...

Paul Roberti served on the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission from 2009 to 2016. "My wife is the most Googled person on ...

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally and to house some of the ...

A former prisoner who was locked up in the same prison Sara Sharif's twisted father has been moved to has revealed the horrific things he witnessed behind bars. Urfan Sharif, now held at HMP ...

A drone dubbed the “flying guard dog” could cripple crime gangs flooding prisons with weapons and drugs. Two high-security jails were said to have lost control of the air space above them in ...

Following the beating death of an inmate and another record year of violence in New York prisons, Gov ... 2025-26 state budget proposal to boost security at correctional facilities.