Prison guards in New York say the state's correctional system is in crisis. Both guards and inmates are pleading with the state to fix what they say is a broken system.

A father and son pleaded guilty in connection with the killing of an 80-year-old grandmother, according to authorities.

After immigrants launched a hunger strike at a Michigan ICE detention center, legal groups are calling for an investigation ...

New York City’s new correction commissioner is the first formerly incarcerated person to oversee the city’s jails.

All freed just hours into Valentine’s Day thanks to the work of Mendoza, Rosales and more than two dozen other women who dared to challenge their authoritarian government. These wives and mothers had ...

A bill introduced in Congress would charge protesters with a federal crime who harass or interfere with congregants trying to ...

Once home to a few thousand people, nearly every house had been reduced to piles of concrete by Israeli military demolitions.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon and Israel were set to begin a second session of direct talks in Washington on Thursday to discuss the ...

Iran attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz this morning, seizing at least two of them amid uncertainty over peace ...

In the last 18 months, the state’s prison system has seen officers accused or convicted of murdering two incarcerated individuals and a massive wildcat strike with thousands of officers illegally ...

Correction officers across the state say violence inside prisons is increasing, raising renewed concerns about safety and the ...

At first, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., thought speculation surrounding the deaths and disappearances of about a dozen scientists ...