James M. Johnson, 33, the man charged with first-degree murder in the death of 45-year-old Milo Warnock, changed his plea to ...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

Two inmates at the Webb County Jail in Texas say ... Rodriguez faces life in prison.

OKLAHOMA (KOCO) — A former corrections officer is now charged with sexually assaulting two Oklahoma inmates. The Mabel Bassett Correctional Center officer was fired and arrested in March after ...

A riot inside a prison in the southern Mexico state of Tabasco has left seven inmates dead, leading to family members attempting to break inside to check on their relatives. Four police officers ...

It’s just one of the many precautions put in place for this course, one of the newest additions to prison and jail education ... s first students were female inmates in New England.

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The Marcy prison is a medium-security facility located in Oneida County, about seven miles west of Utica. It had 846 inmates as of Dec. 1, records show. An independent monitoring group ...

Videos on social media show the moment inmates left the prison, while other recordings reveal captures made by military personnel and prison guards. Many prisoners tried to hide in homes ...

At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country's police chief said, as widespread post-election riots and ...