Cells at the former Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron are now dormitory-style rooms for trainees.

A correctional officer at a women’s prison in Alabama is charged with sex crimes against an inmate, officials said.

A former British soldier who is facing spying charges has admitted escaping from a London prison by clinging to the underside ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have rejected a measure on the November ballot that would have amended the state ...

While in middle school, I spent many weekends in the car, making the eight-hour journey from Maryland to rural upstate New ...

People who are incarcerated are often paid less than $1 an hour to fight fires, clean cells and do landscaping work at ...

One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

Zachary Gift’s mother was 62 when he killed her. Gift himself will be 61 by the time he’s eligible for parole after a ...

The court heard he planned a fake escape attempt for August 21 in the hope he would be moved to the HSU, but decided that a ...

A large inmate population and a changing workforce have created a "staffing crisis" that makes it "almost impossible" to ...

Investigators said Raymond Borden Jr. had a spent shell casing in his pocket and blood on his shoes when he was arrested for ...

The man responsible for operating the longest-running bitcoin money laundering service on the darknet was handed a 150-month ...