A reformatory’s redevelopment into housing in Virginia has become a guiding example for cities across the United States. Read ...

An Omaha woman was booked into Lancaster County jail Wednesday after being accused of passing contraband to a Lincoln prison ...

WASHINGTON — DC Police are asking for the public's help finding a missing 13-year-old girl. According to the Metropolitan ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said authorities should now move quickly and pursue criminal charges against those responsible for ...

A federal judge agreed Tuesday to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to ...

Finklea Detention Center has died after they were found unresponsive in a cell. The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office said ...

Officials in Douglas and Sarpy Counties are in talks with federal representatives about using local jails to detain people ...

U.S. figure skater Spencer Lane, 16, shared a photo from inside American Eagle Flight 5342 before it took off from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., where it crashed into a helicopter mid-air.

Following reports several days ago of a pox-like disease affecting several prison inmates in Sinoe County ... We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington DC.

CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — An inmate with the Craven County Detention Center reportedly escaped from his assigned cell on Sunday afternoon. A search showed that the inmate, John Matthew Nigh ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...