The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison, in exchange for unpaid community ...

An Indiana judge is mandating sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate, extending the ongoing legal challenge to a ...

A Georgian court sentenced on Wednesday the country's former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, to nine more years in prison ...

Cameron M. Smith, 50, a Canadian who wanted to bring more attention to climate change, was also ordered to pay $2.1 million ...

More than 2,000 NY correction officers who are being terminated after striking are being prohibited from working for a state ...

New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that ...

The strike that paralyzed New York prisons for three weeks ended with most workers returning to their jobs and the state ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has barred prison guards who were fired for illegally walking off the job from being hired for ...

Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and unborn son, was injured Sunday at a state prison during an ...

John Leake, 43, of Plano, Texas, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering. He played for the Tigers from 2000 to ...

The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three ...

Edwin Esteva III was convicted last month of reckless endangerment of a child and permitting substantial injury to a child, legal filings show.