CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Men who were part of the group of Venezuelan migrants that the United States government transferred ...

A restaurant inside California State Prison Solano provides a one-of-a-kind training program that provides opportunity and a sense of purpose, as well as skills training.

A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

A judge has sentenced seven former government officials to more than a year of preventive prison as authorities investigate a $250 million corruption ...

A 33-year-old inmate, Dwayne Tottleben, was shot and killed at U.S. Penitentiary Coleman I in October. He was serving a 15-year sentence for methamphetamine possession with intent to distribute. The ...

A 32-year-old Rikers Island inmate died behind bars early Sunday — the 14th in-custody death at the Big Apple jail complex this year, Correction Department officials said. Aramis Furse “appeared ...

PIERRE, S.D. – As much as lawmakers debated whether South Dakota should build a new prison, they generally agreed that rehabilitation must be a vital component to ease the state's overflowing prisons ...

CONYERS, Ga. — Authorities are still searching for 43-year-old Timothy Shane, a man who spent more than half his life behind bars before escaping police custody Monday morning at Grady Hospital.

SOMERS, Connecticut — A corrections officer assaulted by an inmate at Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers on Monday was treated and released from the hospital, according to officials. Officials ...

MITCHELL — A South Dakota inmate and man responsible for the crash that led to a 9-year-old girl's death in Mitchell in 2012 has died. Michael Sedlmeier, 60, died at a hospital on Dec. 1, according to ...

An inmate who was attacked inside a South Carolina prison has died, according to the state Department of Corrections. Mario Leven Harrison, 37, died at a hospital Monday, the S.C. Department of ...

Stephora Anne-Mircie Joseph, 11, tragically died during a school outing in the province of Santiago in the Dominican Republic where she and 86 other students were taken to a ranch with a pool.