Five people from Texas were given lengthy federal prison sentences Monday for their roles in an elaborate, transnational ...

This week’s cover story explores how a class of 2024 earned degrees from a Tacoma university while in prison. IN ITS WAY, this photo tells the whole story — or at least gets at its heart.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott installed new razor wire at the U.S-Mexico border on Monday after last week's incident in El Paso, where a large group of migrants breached concertina wire fencing ...

Is being a prison guard anything like it's portrayed in the movies? Do "screws" get an unfairly bad rap? One of those in charge at Canberra's jail offers a glimpse behind the razor-wire.

A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof in a breakout that wasn’t detected by guards for a full ...

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — A murderer on the loose in suburban Philadelphia escaped from a jail yard by climbing up a wall and over razor wire last week, prison officials said Wednesday. A security ...

CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. — A convicted killer was able to escape an exercise yard at Chester County Prison last week by climbing up a wall and over razor wire, authorities said Wednesday at a news ...