Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into ...

Video shows Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows taken down and pepper sprayed by prison staff, leading to a $404,000 civil rights ...

NEW YORK -- Rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison after a jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in July. He ...

Epping sex offender arrested in north London after mistaken prison release - Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on ...

Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder Monday in the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed, while two other guards were acquitted for their ...

IRONTON — A man who admitted to providing drugs to a person who subsequently died was sentenced this week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to eight to 12 years in prison. Lutz Trautzsch, 66, of ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the killing of an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison on Tuesday.Staff observed inmate Orlando M. Ochoa, 40, allegedly ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the sex-trafficking accomplice and former lover of Jeffrey Epstein, is getting "unusually favorable treatment" after arriving at a "Club Fed" prison in Texas, according to a new ...

Two former SCDC employees were arrested for, among other things, helping an inmate secure contraband, according to the SCDC Officer of Inspector General. Getty Images COLUMBIA, S.C. Two South Carolina ...

“I’m not going to deny the reality — there’s no good explanation,” the interior minister said of how the 20 inmates had slipped out, perhaps over a period of time. By Annie Correal and Jody García ...