Former Cincinnati Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld was sentenced to 16 months in prison for bribery and attempted extortion. Sittenfeld's date to report to prison is Jan. 2, and he will be admitted to ...

“I hope the task force realizes this is a duct tape and baling twine solution,” he said of the site. More: South Dakota needs more prison beds, and fast. The cost, a new report finds, is very ...

A fight at the federal prison in Beaumont ended in the death of an inmate and two others hospitalized. The fight broke out between multiple inmates around 8:15 p.m. Monday at United States ...

Mark C. Foreman will serve as the new warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, a maximum security prison for men.

A noose hangs from reproduction of the gallows, which were used at the former Kansas State Penitentiary from 1944 to 1965, and were seen during a tour of the prison on Friday, May 16, 2025, in ...

Three months after Origins, Batman responds to a prison riot at Blackgate Penitentiary. Cue Penguin, Joker, and Black Mask. It’s a 2.5D Metroidvania take on the series. With the success of the ...

For U.S. Penitentiary Atlanta — a low-security prison that opened in 1902 now called Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta — the daily operating cost per prisoner in 1959 was $3, or $31.56 ...

President Trump said Sunday that he is ordering the reopening of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison offshore from San Francisco that closed more than 60 years ago. “For to… ...

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been a tourist spot ...

Eastern State Penitentiary’s reentry simulation offers glimpse into post-incarceration challenges Dozens of visitors to the Eastern State Penitentiary got to experience the challenges of acclimating ...

In 1990, the closure of the Virginia State Penitentiary ended nearly 200 years of holding state inmates in downtown Richmond.

SOLEDAD, Calif. — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the homicide of an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison. The murder was reported on Monday at around 5 ...