Gavin Newsom announced plans for California to shutter some of its prisons, the state's prison budget is reflecting savings.

A former Massachusetts firefighter and Vietnamese national was sentenced to over two years in prison on Wednesday for ...

A Vietnamese man living here illegally who stole the identity of a dead child, using it to work as a firefighter and ...

Two Arkansas prison employees have been fired after an inmate known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" escaped in May.

Amanda Polzner will serve a year in prison and must register as a sex offender for 15 years after pleading guilty to ...

Two New York men imprisoned as teenagers have been exonerated in a 1994 killing. A judge scrapped Brian Boles and Charles ...

Noel Haro, the leader of The Border Brothers — a gang heavily involved in drug, weapons, and human trafficking in Southern ...

Lawyers for the 77-year-old McClain asked for probation. They cited the possibility that he could "die alone in prison" and ...

The man claimed to have served 20 years in a Salvadoran prison for the murder of a rival gang member, agents said.

Ben McLemore, who played nine NBA seasons including five with the Sacramento Kings, received a 100-month prison sentence ...

SAGINAW, MI — A Saginaw woman has admitted in court to severely burning the hands of a 3-year-old she was babysitting.