A fence with barbed wire encircles the water tower across from the state women’s prison in Shakopee. A plain chain-link fence lines the Catholic cemetery. But five years after local ...

Shapiro’s predecessors closed three prisons over the past decade and opened one new one, Phoenix, in suburban Philadelphia.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Two men who tried to steal copper wire from a Commonwealth building have escaped prison time. Wayne Robert Blundell, ...

Colorado lawmakers pass bill to rein in fence near Culebra Peak in San Luis Valley, addressing community concerns and ...

A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser testified before the Colorado House Committee on Agriculture, Water and Natural ...

A man who bragged online about molesting his young relatives appeared in a West Palm Beach courtroom with the full support of ...

Taking place just seconds after Kissy Missy's mysterious attacker left the group stranded at the tail-end of Poppy Playtime's ...

El Salvador has offered to house convicted American criminals and deportees in its mega-prison for a fee. US Secretary of ...