Palestinian security prisoners were released in exchange for hostages Sagui Dekel Chen, Alexander Sasha Troufanov, and Iair ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted conducting an assessment at the shuttered facility both Thursday ...

The Mississippi House has passed a bill that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to prison inmates.

If a woman is pregnant at the time she is sentenced to incarceration, the bill mandates that the court include a term of ...

The Board of Corrections also approved a lease for a ‘Women’s health unit' and expressed concerns about a delay regarding a ...

The Brazilian woman accused of killing three relatives with a poisoned Christmas cake has been found dead in her jail cell.

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons. Meanwhile, a pregnant inmate at the Perryville complex describes her ...

A Riverton woman was sentenced to between three and five years in prison Tuesday for shooting off part of her boyfriend's toe ...

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

A new bill, HB 1070, would help correctional officers access the same services as firefighters and law enforcement.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

In Colorado, a man who rapes a child — as long as it is just once — can get probation. As in, walk right out of the courtroom ...