The plan is to close the prison, which is in the city of Bayport, by 2029. Walz and lawmakers involved in the decision said the prison is outdated, unsafe and expensive to maintain. The closure ...

Jennifer Rodriguez An inmate at a private prison in Ohio is suing after he says he was tied up and assaulted by other inmates while it was livestreamed. A lawsuit was filed against the Northeast ...

As law officers search Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin ...

Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison. If nothing changes, he'll be released more than four years early. A jury convicted Bankman-Fried of seven counts of fraud ...

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Trump’s plan to expel alleged gang members to El Salvador relies on the country’s 36-year-old prison director, whom U.S. officials have sanctioned for ...

NEW ORLEANS — A maintenance worker at Orleans Parish Prison was arrested Monday night on accusations of helping facilitate the escape of 10 inmates during a jailbreak last week, WWL Louisiana ...

The prison officials discovered the cat sneaking over a barbed wire fence, according to video posted online Prison officials in Costa Rica caught an unlikely suspect attempting to smuggle drugs ...

We're hearing from a prison reform advocate who says a recently obtained video of an attack using padlocks shows a lack of safety for inmates as well as guards. Donna Hamm, Director of Middle ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom today called for the closure of another prison in his new budget proposal, which would be the fifth facility closed under his watch, though he didn’t specify which institution ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) says its Stillwater prison will be undergoing a phased closure as part of the state’s economic plan, as well as decrease the amount of current ...

South Dakota lawmakers have received 13 proposals for places to build a new men's prison. Eight proposed sites are located in or around the Sioux Falls area. Having the 13 proposals on the table ...

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks would serve as a deterrence for even the worst criminals. Trump called for ...