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The Parole Board agreed the 34-year-old, who was locked up as a teenager after being convicted of attempted robbery, can now finally be released

The country’s president blamed the violence on street gangs

Some consider Yusef Salaam a folk hero as a member of the “Central Park Five,” the group of teenagers wrongly convicted of raping a white jogger in a brutal attack 34 years ago

Twenty-six of the 41 known victims were burned to death and the remainder shot or stabbed at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, police said.

DENVER — Despite a bold proclamation on his newly launched campaign website that he has secured a spot on Colorado’s 2024 ballot for a White House run, the imprisoned “Tiger King” of Netflix fame — Joseph Maldonado, better known as Joe Exotic — is not ready for presidential prime time…

A police official in Honduras says a riot at a women's prison northwest of the Honduran capital has killed at least 41 women, most of them burned to to death

Robert Downey Jr. recalled his time in prison more than two decades ago, including an embarrassing moment he had after taking a shower.

A former CNN television producer has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to coercing a 9-year-old girl into illegal sexual acts

Some women were burned to death in uprising blamed on crackdown on illicit activities inside of the country’s prisons