The second-to-last of 10 escapees from a New Orleans jailbreak last month has been recaptured after six weeks on the run, authorities said Friday.

A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes received the maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison on Friday.

A man who committed a string of robberies at 7-Elevens in Salt Lake County was sentenced to almost five years in prison.

Victoria’s new billion dollar maximum security prison is finally complete, and the massive operation to move prisoners into the 1,248 bed facility will start as early as next week.

The detention center was proposed by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," the prison, Uthmeier said. He said the facility would be built in the middle of nowhere.

Former corrections officers Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad became the ninth and 10th individuals charged in connection with alleged sexual abuse at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin.

With the 10-year anniversary of the prison escape at Dannemora this month, how it happened has been described as a complete failure from those inside the walls. Those failures have led to massive ...

WATERLOO — Six former state correction officers, one with more than 20 years’ experience, have become COs at the Seneca County Correctional Facility in Romulus.

Women incarcerated at the Shakopee Correctional Facility are dealing with basic health products rationing, according to the Incarcerated Workers Organization Committee. Tampons and pads are among ...

Attica Correctional Facility, located in Attica, New York, opened in 1931 as a maximum-security prison built to hold some of the state's most challenging inmates. Known for its high-security ...

Fears of a larger Middle East war began to subside Tuesday amid an uneasy ceasefire between Israel and Iran. While welcome, the de-escalation is doing little to ease the concerns of families of ...