Last year, Luigi Mangione was arrested as the suspect in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and has now ...

Here's a look at the timeline of events in a series of killings that culminated in a Jan. 20 highways shootout that killed a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. It is based on Associated Press ...

A San Diego woman who planned to mail Bibles containing hidden heroin to two prisons was sentenced to seven years in prison.

The man accused of shooting a teenager who went to the wrong Kansas City house has entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge.

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

Opened in the wake of the terror attacks on the US in 2001, Guantanamo Bay has held some of the most dangerous people ...

A Killeen man was executed Thursday for a 2004 murder at a gentlemen’s club that killed two men and two teen girls.

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh ...

Renée Zellweger returns for another heartwarming chapter in one of the best movie franchises (yeah, we said it).