When film star James Stewart went on location in 1948 at Stateville prison’s notorious roundhouse while portraying a Chicago newspaper reporter whose work freed a ...

The Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility failed a state safety inspection last year. Even though it passed a reinspection, ...

Two counties house training programs in local high schools as officials pitch corrections jobs as gateways to criminal ...

A 43-year-old Mission resident has been sentenced for coercion and enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S.

A hotel in El Paso, Texas, has been shut down for harboring violent illegal border crossers, including Venezuelan Tren De ...

An inmate who escaped from the Huntsville Prison Unit is in custody hours after a search on Sunday, according to authorities. The video above is from ABC13's 24/7 livestream. The Texas Department of ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Through the storied tunnel on a worn-out Saturday afternoon came the Michigan players and coaches and unsung toilers, glummer than they had been in forever, trudging along ...

Prisoners tried to break out en masse from the Makala Central Prison in the capital, Kinshasa, at around 2 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET) on Monday, Interior Minister Jacquemain Shabani Lukoo Bihango ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An attempted jailbreak in Congo’s main prison left 129 people dead, including some who were shot and others who died in a stampede at the overcrowded facility ...

Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday. A provisional assessment ...

Drew Hansen, D-Bainbridge Island. Hansen introduced legislation to make phone calls in prison free this year, which would have ended the main source of revenue for the fund. “The whole structure ...