Inmates at Lebanon’s largest prison rioted briefly Tuesday, setting their clothes and mattresses on fire and causing injuries to 18 prisoners, security officials...

An entrepreneurial spirit struck Allan Parmelee last fall as he sat in a Washington state prison, where he’s serving 17 years for bombing the cars of two...

Inmates at the Des Moines County jail in Burlington may have to begin paying for toilet paper. The county is facing a more than $1.7 million deficit in this...

Inmates at a privately run federal prison in western Texas started a riot and set at least one fire Saturday for the second time in less than two months, authorities...

Five people imprisoned for the 1985 rape and murder of a 68-year-old woman were pardoned Monday, two months after investigators said DNA evidence proved they were...

Inmates at a privately run prison in West Texas took two hostages after starting a riot and setting at least one fire Friday, authorities said.

It costs the state of Connecticut at least $1,600 every time multiple murder suspect Joshua Komisarjevsky appears in a courtroom.

Inmates with open, bleeding wounds routinely use communal showers and suicidal prisoners are sometimes kept for hours inside small cages, witnesses testified in a...

Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have laws that provide compensation for the wrongfully convicted:

Three people recently freed after spending nearly 20 years in prison for a murder they didn’t commit face many challenges as they re-enter society: finding jobs...

Inmates in Maricopa County jails are often housed in unsanitary conditions with inadequate food and health care, more than 30 years after a lawsuit was filed aimed at...

Muslim prisoners are being given fresh clothes and bedding after sniffer dogs search their cells – because they view the animals as unclean.

Death row is the end of the line for most people, but some are lucky enough to appeal and get off the sentence. But could there be a computer to predict who lives and...

A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for having sex with two inmates while a chaplain at a women’s prison.Vincent Inametti, 48,...

The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a county sheriff who objects to transporting jail inmates for elective abortions.An Arizona sheriff wanted the justices...

Two men whose daring escape from a New Jersey jail was reminiscent of the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” pleaded not guilty Monday to escape charges.One...

Two inmates returned Friday to the scene of their daring Hollywood-style escape last month, which also led to the suicide of one of their guards.Shackled and surrounded...

In a Jan. 8 story about the apprehension of an escaped convict from a New Jersey jail, The Associated Press in one instance used an incorrect last name for the...

Authorities in Mexico City on Wednesday captured the second of two inmates who made a daring escape last month from a New Jersey jail, a U.S. marshal said.The...