In the state of Ohio, Lucasville remains synonymous with the state's largest-ever prison riot. On Easter Sunday of 1993, more than 400 inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility there took ...

Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison. If nothing changes, he'll be released more than four years early. A jury convicted Bankman-Fried of seven counts of fraud ...

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Trump’s plan to expel alleged gang members to El Salvador relies on the country’s 36-year-old prison director, whom U.S. officials have sanctioned for ...

A prison officer who continued to smuggle drugs into jail even after she had been arrested is now behind bars herself. Chelsea Kemp, 32, was sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court to eight and a half ...

As law officers search Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin ...

Grant Hardin, 56, escaped on Sunday from a high-security prison in Arkansas, where he was serving a decades-long sentence for first-degree murder and rape. By Ali Watkins and Mark Walker A manhunt ...

A former police chief known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" was recaptured Friday, nearly two weeks after his escape from an Arkansas prison, where he was serving decadeslong sentences for murder and ...

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

Two prisoners currently serving sentences in Rome’s Rebibbia prison obtained special permission to participate in Pope Leo XIV’s general audience this past Wednesday. “We received an ...

A former police chief who was convicted of rape and murder escaped from the prison where he was serving a 30-year sentence on Sunday, correction officials said. Grant Hardin had been at North ...

Rapper Tory Lanez is reportedly on the road to recovery in a new prison facility after he was allegedly stabbed 14 times on the morning of May 12. The 32-year-old “Sorry 4 What” artist has ...

This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced labor in federal and state prison systems. Asst. Prof. of Law Adam A. Davidson, JD’17, challenges this interpretation. “I can recall ...