Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and ...

State officials announced plans to shutter the Stillwater Prison, citing rising costs to maintain the century-old building.

Lyle and Erik Menendez immediately became eligible for parole after the judge’s surprise ruling following a resentencing hearing in Los Angeles.

Imagine spending 30 years in prison for something you didn’t do. It was a reality for two Connecticut men. We featured some ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic resentenced Lyle and Erik Menendez to 50 years to life in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez. It’s a remarkable ...

Sitting on a couch in her home in Maracay, Venezuela, Mirelis Cacique López watches her son Francisco Javier García Cacique ...

A New York corrections officer admitted in court Wednesday that he cleaned up bloodstains from an inmate whose fatal beating ...

“I guess I was supposed to be a moviemaker,” said Donald Trump today when asked why he decided to reopen the infamous prison on Alcatraz Island. Turns out there might be a more prosaic ...

(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San ...

Prosecutors said Saturday that 21 suspects in a series of coordinated attacks on French prisons had been charged, including two teenagers. French anti-terror ...