The jail authorities have not shared any details on his ‘vow of silence’. The gangster has been kept in a secured barrack of the prison.

Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...

She was serving a 23-year prison sentence; now will be freed. Her case attracted national attention and was the subject of TV ...

Prison bosses have revealed they are worried about the very possible prospect of drones being used to lift inmates up and out of jail. They are already being used to deliver drugs into cells ...

A man with previous addresses in both Pike and Floyd counties listed in court documents has been sentenced to serve 33 years in prison related to a federal fentanyl and ...

Many of the defendants are accused of directing the operation from inside Georgia state prisons using contraband cell phones. Both state and local law enforcement agencies were involved in the ...

Housh repeatedly punched the victim in the face, put him in a choke hold and stomped on his head during an off-and-on assault that took place intermittently Aug. 8 in ...

In light of a troubling surge in incidents where prison staff have fallen seriously ill after exposure to inmates suspected of drug overdoses — most recently at Lakeview Correctional Facility on ...

The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The Alabama Solution.' ...

"This could mean life or death and she has not received a death penalty as her sentence," one of the women's family members wrote.

After two years behind bars, the 23-year-old man will spend at least six more years in prison in a plea deal that accounted ...

"The Alabama Solution," which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, is a documentary about abuses in the Alabama prison system. Though upsetting, advocacy from inmates themselves proves inspiring.