Authorities in Ecuador have recaptured fugitive drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías, also known as “Fito,” more than a year ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

BAY CITY, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Michigan fentanyl dealer is headed to federal prison after he was caught mailing the deadly drug.

Todd Chrisley is condemning the prison system in a new interview with Lara Trump. Here's what he has to say about the US.

A San Antonio man was sentenced to a decade in federal prison for attempting to smuggle 25 migrants into the US inside a ...

The two men were the first of several defendants to be sentenced in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Two smugglers convicted in the deaths of 53 migrants in a sweltering truck in Texas face sentencing on Friday.

Accounts from inside Tehran's Evin Prison are as harrowing as they are rare — many of those locked up inside never make it out. Now Iranian officials say 71 people were killed in an Israeli strike ...

Experts say the surge suggests a Trump administration effort to pad criminal deportation totals — and that it diverts ...

Can Sean Diddy Combs, who is accused of sex trafficking and racketeering, escape prison? The jury reached a partial verdict but was instructed to keep deliberating on Wednesday. US President Donald ...

The DOC already owns 25 acres in south Butte and Butte-Silver Bow’s chief executive, J.P. Gallagher, has said the agency could build the prison here even if there’s significant local opposition.

Researchers have found that, in the United States, individuals who live in a high incarceration county have increased risk for stroke death.