COLUMBUS — The Ohio House passed a bipartisan bill Wednesday that would require state prisons, as well as city and county ...

H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman ...

(AP Photo/Michael ... transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to hormone therapy. The judge said there’s no evidence Trump or prison officials considered the harm the new ...

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 ...

Lester Eubanks, 81, escaped from the Ohio State Penitentiary in 1973 while serving a life sentence for the death of ...

Two inmates at the Montana Women’s Prison are facing charges after prosecutors say they worked with a “low-level” California dealer to get drugs into the prison. Angelene Victoria Tropp ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — More than 100 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi overnight after they were temporarily ...

A federal judge in Charlottesville ruled Wednesday that the Virginia Department of Corrections failed to live up to eight of 22 standards of health care established in a 2016 settlement agreement ...

Inmate No. 1227 is serving time at the Wyoming ... In outline form, Velma Reilly's story isn't much different from most women serving prison terms with the Wyoming Department of Corrections.

An unrepentant prison inmate already serving 97 years in prison was sentenced to an extra 28 years Monday morning for holding a prison guard hostage and sexually abusing her. A Pima County ...

Mahir Abdulrahman was found unresponsive inside his cell at a Leicestershire-based prison in August last year and was later pronounced dead.