The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Alabama officials said they are moving forward with plans to build two supersize prisons despite a bond sale falling more than $200 million short of expectations

California will not consider amending its state constitution to eliminate an exemption that allows indentured servitude to punish crime

NEW DELHI: Three alleged members of the Tillu Tajpuria gang fired at the house of an assistant jail superintendent in west Delhi in an apparent bid to terrorise him into allowing a senior gang member more facilities in jail.

A measure that would change the California constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in criminal punishment did not pass the Senate in time to make a deadline for the November ballot, disappointing prison reform advocates who called it critical in addressing the state’s history of enslavement.

A US trial heard that Kelly was a ‘prolific serial predator’ who preyed ‘on the young and vulnerable’

Lauryn Hill, ‘Queen of the Mean’ Leona Helmsley and Orange is the New Black author Piper Kerman have all done time at FCI Danbury

One year to the day he was released on an overturned sexual assault conviction and less than a month after losing a civil trial on another sexual assault, Bill Cosby spoke for the first time about his stay in prison.

LaShawn Ford, a Chicago Democrat, is one of those behind the push.

After months in jail, US basketball star Brittney Griner's Russian trial begins today, but it's a prisoner swap that could be needed to win her freedom.

The 14-year-old has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering his stepbrother

18 homes and businesses were broken into during crime spree after his release from prison