State prosecutors alleged the former corrections officer engaged in multiple sexual acts with several prisoners while working ...

A New York prisoner accused corrections officers of assault and sexual abuse. State officials deemed his claims unfounded despite footage of the encounter.

Infamous mass murderer George Banks, who slaughtered 13 people including five of his own children, has died in state prison ...

Former Bay County Jail inmates alleged harsh conditions following two deaths. BCSO and jail leadership defended the facility.

Bahnasawy is currently incarcerated in the maximum-security federal prison in Florence, Colorado, where he is serving a ...

Thirty-one years after Susan Smith confessed to the murder of her two young children, she continues to serve a life sentence in prison.

A British teenager - eight months pregnant and charged with drugs smuggling - is awaiting sentencing in prison in Georgia, ...

Two journalists, both in detention for their work, show how President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s repressive machine grinds on despite warming ties with the U.S.

“Open prisons are a good idea and a more humane way to treat prisoners. The opportunity to go out to work, maintain contact ...

Castro Medina was the star witness in Lazzaro's trial, in which he was convicted of sex trafficking and obstruction, then ...

More than two dozen women in Idaho prisons say guards have sexually abused them and faced little or no consequences, ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder Monday in the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed, while two other guards were acquitted for their ...