The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.

Global Village Museum, where around 100 of the pieces created by inmates are currently hanging, was taken aback when a ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' (Picture credit: Reuters) Once followed by an entourage, surrounded by all the luxuries of the world, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ currently is spending his time behind bars at ...

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs reportedly had an emotional moment behind bars. After spending Thanksgiving in jail following the denial ... reportedly panicked and begged prison guards for hospital ...

Graduation day dawns sunny and warm for the first day of November, but the weather hardly matters for the joint ...

Today, they join over 200 other students at correctional facilities across the country who have completed the Brave Behind Bars program ... newest additions to prison and jail education.

BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted of instructing a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the institution. Daniel ...

the 31-year-old mother-of-five was suspended from the prison in 2022, with her convict lover, who was serving 10-and-a-half-years behind bars, relocated to another jail. After her suspension ...

Plasencia was transported to state prison for a felony conviction ... has taken to combat the supply of narcotics into our jail system.'' Background information on Neal, Johnson and Lopez was ...