The bill sponsor hopes the prison can be retooled to provide healthcare and help solve the state's psychiatric bed shortage.

Thirteen suspects, including foreign nationals, were indicted in Kansas City for drug trafficking, firearm offenses, and immigration violations after a multi-agency federal investigation.

Bonuses and better work accommodations for mental health staffers are part of the latest bid to improve California prison conditions.

Hoover, 74, still faces the remainder of a 200-year sentence in Illinois for the 1973 murder of William "Pooky" Young.

As a kid in rural Venezuela, Widmer Agelviz Sanguino would be awakened in the middle of the night by the screeches of nearby ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is marking the first anniversary of his release from prison. His wife Stella said he is working on a project to slow the “rush” towards war. In the early hours of June ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was wrongfully sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March, is ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence of ... and sentenced to 150 to 200 years in prison, with Hoover sent to the maximum-security Stateville Correctional Center in Crest ...

A former police chief convicted of rape and murder donned a makeshift uniform and walked out of a high security prison — ...

Idaho is set to become the only U.S. state with a firing squad as its primary execution method. The prison system has to renovate its execution chamber first.

where murals of comic book characters adorn the walls of the maximum security prison. Advocates and a federal judge hope thousands of dollars in bonuses will help California prisons finally ...