Unsplash - CC0 License The idea that prison is a deterrent goes back hundreds of years. European jails would take peop ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A man who robbed the downtown Comerica Bank last year was sentenced to five years in federal prison.

The 44-year-old former reality star spent a week in jail following a DUI arrest that violated the conditions of his probation ...

After an appeals court determined her original prison sentence was miscalculated, a judge resentenced Julie Chrisley to the ...

Prison isn’t working for women, according to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood. It’s not actually working for anyone, ...

A bus carrying prison inmates flipped into a ravine Wednesday morning after colliding with another vehicle just northeast of ...

Mirror reporter Cyann Fielding visited the notorious Alcatraz Island, where she was stunned by its crumbling remains, ...

A Florida woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for scamming her grandmother out of more than $317,000.

Shabana Mahmood said she did not ‘blame’ judges for not using more community sentences as an alternative to prison.

Two Wichita Falls residents who work as guards at Allred Prison have been jailed on charges related to introduction of contraband into the prison.

Zara Aleena’s killer refused to appear in court after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a prison ...

A Baltimore County woman who planned attacks on Baltimore’s power grid as part of a white-supremacist scheme was sentenced ...