The family of a man who died inside a Nevada prison is suing the state, claiming prison employees beat and killed him while he was having an asthma attack.

Wakefield prison officer Alex Dyson was the first at the scene when Andrew Light attacked Sarah Payne killer Roy Whiting, ...

A job in a prison kitchen apparently helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief serving time for murder and rape, plot his ...

New Orleans artist and activist jackie sumell’s nonprofit, Freedom to Grow, takes a plant-powered approach to encourage ...

Three forthcoming education and vocational training buildings by SHL and DLR Group stand to add new amenities at San Quentin, ...

With more than 50 years behind it, the Brooke County Historical Museum and Cultural Center has worked to share many aspects ...

Fabian Schmidt and his fiancée, Bhavani Hodgkins, stroll along the Nashua River near their apartment in downtown Nashua, N.H.

Beth Warden spoke with several loved ones of inmates and a penitentiary inmate about recent changes, an attempt to stop the flow of drugs, and how it affects those on both sides of prison doors.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...

Estranged husband no stranger to prison cell. By BRIAN IANIERI, Staff Writer, 609-463-6713 ... Flanders told next-door neighbor Gene Palm recently about the pending divorce.

A former Fulton County jail guard has been indicted on federal civil rights charges after prosecutors said she used her Taser abusively against three inmates and then lied to cover it up.