Maxson, 63, was freed in 2016 after another man confessed to the grisly stabbing death of a 6-year-old boy and DNA evidence ...

KANE COUNTY, Ill. (CBS) — A judge on Thursday sentenced an Aurora man to 13 years in prison convicted of a sexual assault ...

The Biden administration's move leaves just 15 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Oman will help ...

Italian prisons should create “love rooms” so inmates can have sex with their wives or partners, say rights activists.

Bankston had no signs of trauma or any suspicious marks, authorities said. He had previously told jail officials that he had a terminal underlying health condition, officials said.

It was a painting of hands reaching out from behind a prison barred window, a cigarette dangling from the fingers, with ...

A Scott County man currently serving a 10-year-prison sentence after pleading guilty to possessing child sexual abuse images ...

John Howard Association Executive Director Jennifer Vollen-Katz is calling for major changes within the criminal justice ...

Hyeon Soo Lim, a Canadian pastor who was jailed in North Korea from 2015-2017, believes his foreigners-only prison was in ...

Across the United States, state prison systems are grappling with chronic understaffing and overcrowding — dual crises that ...

THOMSON, Ill. (KWQC) - Officials say an inmate was found unresponsive at Thomson Prison Thursday night. Officials said 64-year-old Juan Randolfo Parrado was found unresponsive around 5:50 p.m. and ...

a 2012 report from the Justice Department estimated that over 200,000 inmates were sexually abused behind bars in one year alone. Many of those occur in men's prisons or happen to women at the ...