Dozens of visitors to the Eastern State Penitentiary got to experience the challenges of acclimating to post-incarceration life.

By JENNIFER PELTZ and HALLIE GOLDEN Virginia Giuffre, who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of ...

A self-described Hamas operative who enlisted in the US Air Force was indicted this week alongside a Jewish woman and a ...

Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

Juvenile offenders languishing in NC prisons as adults have little hope for parole despite a mandate from the court system to ...

The Senate panel's action followed a series of Free Press articles about fatal jumps and falls at two Jackson-area Michigan ...

Legal Newsletter looks at a mysterious development in the case of a Maryland resident sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison by mistake.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed more than 100 bills this week as the legislative session draws to a close, including nearly 20 on Thursday and Friday. Here are the most recent bills ...

A bill requiring air conditioning in the state’s prisons gained approval from a Texas House panel this week. House Bill 3006, ...

The UK Ministry of Justice is using one algorithm to predict people’s risk of reoffending and another to predict who will ...

When former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was getting to know Nayib Bukele, the young Salvadoran president foreshadowed an offer ...

USA TODAY's initial analysis of previously secret records shows how numbers of in-custody overdoses, murders and suicides ...