Among those who "did time in Leavenworth" were gangsters like Bugs Moran, Joe Barker and Machine Guy Kelly. Boss Tom Pendergast was incarcerated there, as were Leonard Pelletier, James Earl Ray and ...

For the first time, South Dakota taxpayers are seeing a site plan for the proposed new men’s prison in northeast Sioux Falls.

The early release raises questions about the impact lighter punishment could have on deterring politicians from committing corruption crimes.

SOMERSET, Pa. -- Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been moved from a maximum-security prison to a medium-security facility in western Pennsylvania. State prison officials ...

The Miami Correctional Facility is making 1,000 beds available to ICE, officials said, and needs funds to make it possible.

In February, Gov. Tony Evers recommended a $325-million “domino” plan to close the Green Bay prison, turn the Waupun prison ...

Fewer inmates, cost savings are driving the move. Some city leaders have coveted the grounds of the old Lake Norconian Club for a revived resort.

Questions still remain about the lack of control inside Ely State Prison on July 30, 2024, when three inmates died as a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” spent months planning his escape from an Arkansas prison, and said lax security in the kitchen where he worked allowed ...

Inmates at a French high-security prison for dangerous drug traffickers started a hunger strike this week to protest against ...