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Kingston Fire and Rescue crews were dispatched to the penitentiary early Saturday morning to deal with the blaze but were ...

Guadalajara, Mexico (AFP)-A Mexican court on Tuesday sentenced 10 cartel gunmen to 141 years each in prison for murder and kidnapping at a suspected training camp, in a case that shocked the country.

Failures, from state leadership in Albany down to prison staff in Dannemora, contributed to the 2015 escape.

Elwood Cornett, a retired educator who has helped lead the the effort to have the federal government build a high-security prison in Letcher County, in 2015 showed the preferred site for the ...

More than a year-and-a-half after it opened, a site at a the Collins Bay Institution where inmates can inject, snort or swallow substances under medical supervision has only had one user.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A Kahoka, Mo. woman is facing up to a decade in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing her brother's disability benefits.

The state House has approved a plan to put an abandoned maximum security prison in mid-Michigan up for sale. The bill to authorize the sale of the state’s Standish Maximum Correctional Facility ...

High Desert State Prison and Lassen County officials are investigating the death of Joseph Reagan as a potential homicide at the Susanville facility.

Grant Hardin, who came to be known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was captured on Friday, nearly two weeks after his May 25 escape from a high-security prison.

Scott Stevens, accused of first-degree murder in the death of his Boise roommate, will be sent to Idaho’s maximum security prison for mental health treatment.

A fight at a high-security federal prison in Beaumont left one inmate dead, sent two others to the hospital, and a fourth being treated for minor injuries.