Michael James Pratt, former proprietor of GirlsDoPorn, was sentenced to 27 years for fraud, coercion, and sex trafficking.

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

A San Bernardino County jail inmate briefly escaped from custody while being taken for medical treatment at a Victorville hospital before ultimately being recaptured nearby on Thursday, Nov. 6, ...

Jesse Daniel Williams, III, was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive at the United States Penitentiary Beaumont. The cause of death has not been revealed. Williams has been in custody at USP ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The death of a 33-year-old South Dakota prison inmate could be the result of a drug overdose. The DOC says Travis Long Fox was found unresponsive in his cell at the state ...

LONDON — It’s been a strange sort of prison break: no daring escapes, no Hollywood getaways — just inmates quietly released, by mistake, onto the streets of Britain. What once might have been an ...

Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a staffing crisis as corrections officers are leaving for more lucrative jobs at ICE, resulting in worse conditions for inmates and staff.

(LEX 18) — Kentucky lawmakers announced plans Wednesday to expand prison education programs that have helped drive down the state's repeat crime rate. Representative Jennifer Decker and Senator ...

An inmate's death this week brings the total for the calendar year to 19, the highest number in at least a decade. The Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the death. At least four of ...