The New Chapter Store at Richland Correctional Institution provides outgoing inmates with a few free outfits to take with them.

A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit after she was allegedly strip-searched and forced to remove her hijab in Bartow County Jail last year.

Homeland Security documents confirm ICE intends to operate a new detention facility in southern Arizona. Protesters aren't happy.

One of four employees accused of assaulting an inmate and trying to cover up the attack at the federal prison complex in Butner pleaded guilty in court this week. Darryl Antron Campbell, a former ...

Cocoa High junior Armani Cobb started Hired After Bars as a freshman with the goal of reducing recidivism rates for those who've been incarcerated.

Soham murderer Ian Huntley has died after a vicious attack inside 'Monster Mansion' HMP Frankland - reports claimed his life ...

11 years earlier, he had thought up the idea of the mobile laundromat while incarcerated, and felt that the time had come to give it a try.

Vancouver resident Eryn Hastay has carried an unshakable sense of paranoia ever since she was raped almost five years ago. She finds herself glancing over her shoulder at gas stations. She avoids cert ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom last week visited San Quentin prison to celebrate a milestone in turning the once-notorious lockup into a ...

Tenants said one of the city’s most notorious landlords let rats run free and left them cold during the winter. Now, charged with harassment, he’s facing up to four years in prison. By Hurubie Meko ...

The Supreme Court ruled over a decade ago that sentencing a child to life in prison without parole amounted to “cruel and unusual punishment” under the 8th Amendment. In the years since, Connecticut ...

A union representing Michigan corrections officers is sounding alarms over an increase in violent assaults against prison staff, alleging the state is too often holding dangerous prisoners in ...