A prison inmate was on the run for a few hours on Saturday, Jan. 25 after escaping from a prison in Tucson. He has been ...

An inmate accused of spitting on a corrections officer in Indiana County has been sentenced. Indiana County District Attorney ...

Thompson reiterated the need for a nursing home type correctional facility because of an aging inmate population. About 50% of the prison population is over the age of 40, a statistic likely to ...

Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request to transfer John Hanson was denied. He murdered a retired Tulsa banker and an Owasso trucking company owner in 1999.

Trump's executive order eliminating transgender rights in prison will hurt or kill trans prisoners, experts warn.

The law has been a success, with phone calls made between incarcerated men and women and their ... infrastructure in our prisons is outdated and costs the state and taxpayers money due to the ...

Comics in custody A scheme where well-known comic artists work with women serving time in maximum-security prisons to create ...

This past October, members of the Lawrence Correctional Center, in Illinois, stood protest over safety concerns. Now, State Senator Chapin Rose is proposing changes. After ...

Trump’s order says it is intended to protect women’s spaces from those who “self-identify” as women. It defines the sexes in ...

It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious ...

A former Ocean Springs substitute teacher, who was sentenced on sex crime charges, allegedly used an email to make bomb threats in the City of Pascagoula. The Sun ...