Tag: Prisons

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

In Trump’s last term, asylum seekers sued over spoiled milk and inedible food in rundown federal prisons. Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose ...

An information technology expert who for decades assumed the identity of another man so convincingly that his victim was forcibly ...

The mystery of what happened to a U.S. woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a Mexican ...

DENVER -- A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA scientist faces 102 criminal charges, including dozens of counts of forgery, ...

More prisoners in the UK should go to open prisons to help reduce reoffending and avoid overcrowding, the man leading ...

From public hangings in the town square to lethal injections witnessed by journalists, executions historically have mostly been carried out ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana -- An Indiana man convicted in the 1997 killings of his brother and three other people is ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana officials are preparing to execute the state's first death row inmate in 15 years, who was convicted ...