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

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

NEW YORK (AP) — New York state police are investigating the death of an inmate as the state corrections system continues to be roiled by a wildcat strike by prison staff. The agency said Monday ...

COXSACKIE — A wildcat strike by New York state prison guards stretched into a third week Monday, prompting officials to start firing workers for failing to abide by a deal to end the illegal ...

A 27-year-old St. Stephen man arrested in December after police say he led police on a low-speed chase against traffic on Route 1 has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Kody John ...

MARCY — State officials are investigating the death this weekend of an inmate who was housed at a Utica-area state prison. The inmate was taken early Saturday from Mid-State Correctional ...

otherwise known as Angola, since the 1980s. A former slave plantation, the sprawling 18,000-acre property is America’s largest maximum-security prison and still has men working in the fields.

This 1973 photo show prison guards shaking down a prisoner at the Arkansas ... call in a yard behind fencing and razor wire at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. (Chandra McCormick via AP ...

A prison guard holds a glass of an iced drink while watching prisoners picking cotton in 1975 at the Cummins Unit prison farm of the Arkansas Department of Corrections in Grady, Ark. (Bruce ...

A 57-year-old former performing arts teacher in Ocean County was sentenced to parole supervision on Friday, Feb. 28, after pleading guilty to having inappropriate sexual contact with a child, ...

Tony Evers for crafting his prison plan without their input. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos made the announcement less than two weeks after Gov. Tony Evers announced a sweeping plan to tear down the ...