At 5:30 p.m. in the Michigan Theater Thursday night, nearly every seat was full as the audience welcomed Gary Tyler, a ...

The feds are adding thousands of beds to hold families in Texas, which reportedly holds the most immigrants of any state at ...

You can hate the death penalty and at the same time acknowledge its divine justice in the divine order of a God whose ...

At Morton Contemporary's 'We Are All Doing Time,' five artists create art that deal with the trauma of incarceration.

The Montana Department of Corrections is considering Butte-Silver Bow and three other locations as possible sites for a new women’s prison if the Legislature appropriates $220 million for one ...

Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Tuesday, it's first in 15 years. There are 56 other inmates on death row in the state. Here's where they're from.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The crown jewel of El Salvador’s aggressive anti-crime strategy — a mega-prison where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed — became the ...

AGASSIZ, B.C. - An inmate at a British Columbia prison has been charged with second-degree murder over a death in a cafeteria fight. Homicide investigators say Therae Racette-Beaulieu has been ...

With his paintings of Ivory Coast's street kids, Aboudia has taken his teenage misfit mutiny to the very top, becoming one of ...

ELY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada prosecutors say 20 people have been charged in connection with a brawl at a maximum-security prison in eastern Nevada last year in which three inmates were killed and ...

Angola is under fire after it denied entry to several senior African political figures set to attend a conference hosted by the country's main opposition party. Unita said it had invited the ...