Every year when wildfire season arrives, some of Colorado's guarded turn into guardians. State inmates don fireproof clothing instead of prison stripes and take to the backcountry to join other ...

Prison officials say that they've turned the place around and that the days of widespread broken bones are behind them. There's vehement disagreement on this from the parents, activists, and former ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A female prison employee accused of helping two convicted killers stage a brazen escape appeared in court in upstate New York on Monday, under heavy protection and clad in apparent ...

The man once known as the most powerful politician in Illinois is trading his suit for prison stripes. Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan reported to prison on Monday to begin his 7 ½-year ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Reuters) - A female prison employee accused of helping two convicted killers stage a brazen escape appeared in court in upstate New York on Monday, under heavy protection and clad ...

MILAN (Reuters) - It's not in every fashion show that you see two armed policemen standing at the end of the catwalk. Sign up here. But with a jail director and a prisoner in the audience, the extra ...

The man who hoped to sell a U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder — and used his office in myriad other ways to try to enrich himself — was found guilty of 17 criminal counts by a federal jury Monday ...

The man once known as the most powerful politician in Illinois is trading his suit for prison stripes. Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan reported to prison on Monday to begin his 7 ½-year ...