Known for overcrowding and violence, Cook County Jail has a reputation few facilities can match. This video explores the ...

Brian Beals’ 35 years behind bars makes his the fifth longest term of wrongful incarceration in Illinois history, according ...

Two inmates have been killed and a correctional officer attacked since the beginning of June, say CDCR officials ...

It has been a decade since New York state and beyond were in the midst of a massive manhunt after two inmates escaped from ...

He was alone on what he thought would be a routine patrol near the U.S.-Canadian border on June 28, 2015. It would become the last day of the infamous manhunt for inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat, ...

An Atlantic City man admitted Monday running a crack cocaine operation out of an Absecon motel room last summer, the Atlantic ...

Circuit Judge Michael Servitto said the men violated the public trust and came at a time of the public’s “growing mistrust in ...

California prison officials are investigating the death of an inmate at High Desert State Prison near Susanville as a ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed his seventh annual budget, balanced as promised with spending cuts, taxes and one-time revenue boosts ...

The man who was shot by Memphis police after hitting an officer with his vehicle on June 13 has died, the TBI said.

Kelly’s lawyers say in a motion that prison officials hatched a plot to get an inmate to kill him. The filing is the latest ...