Hundreds protested in front of Congo's top court Wednesday to demand the release of political prisoners, including the ...

A 36-year-old Kanawha County man pleaded guilty to a role in a drug trafficking organization. According to a press release, ...

Joker ” is a hard act to follow. Todd Phillips’ dark, Scorsese-inspired character study about the Batman villain ...

An inmate is confined in an outdoor cage in the excercise yard of the Short-Term Restricted Housing Unit of California State Prison, in Sacramento. The unit is for prisoners in segregated or solitary ...

Prisoners are conducting contraband shakedowns and cell counts, and increasingly called on for "gladiator system" beatings as staff looks on.

The Bay Area man was killed last week in a California prison where he'd been serving a life sentence for murdering a close ...

The state spends $15 billion a year on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, with the cost of ...

Prop. 6 would ban forced labor in California prisons, while still allowing people in prison to work to earn good-time credits ...

While incarcerated Californians who aren’t serving felony sentences are eligible to vote, most county jails don’t make it ...

Proposition 6 would stop the use of forced labor in prison. Currently, the California constitution bans the use of forced ...

A correctional officer at a southern Minnesota prison is accused of smuggling drugs to one of the inmates earlier this month, authorities announced Wednesday. The guard, 43-year-old Lindsey Adams ...