Prison vans arriving at America’s highest security prison drive a final stretch of road that reveals the stunning Rocky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — Torry Barker, a formerly convicted felon who spent 20 years behind bars in Alabama’s tough prisons, was ...

Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

Natalee Holloway's killer Joran van der Sloot has attempted to take his own life inside a maximum-security Peruvian prison, RadarOnline.com can reveal. Officials at Challapalca prison confirmed van ...

California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release.

A viral Reddit thread has revealed everything about life in prison that most people don’t realize. Former inmates are now sharing what prison is really like, given how TV tends to sensationalize ...

More time behind bars does not mean better outcomes for inmates, who would be better served if Maryland worked to trim its prison population and use the savings for programs to help those incarcerated ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — In one of his first acts as interim president of Peru, José Jerí on Saturday led a series of raids on prisons holding gang leaders nationwide, the presidency said, a day after the ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A former Texas high school football player who authorities say rose to the top ranks of a Mexican drug cartel has been sentenced to serve nearly 50 years in federal prison on drug and ...

Iowans who commit multiple serious crimes would serve at least 20 years in prison under a "tough on crime" legislative package introduced by House Republicans. The policy, sometimes known as a "three ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — Torry Barker, a formerly convicted felon who spent 20 years behind bars in Alabama’s tough prisons, was released in September. “When I was getting into trouble, I had no ...