A South Dakota task force narrowed down potential locations for a new men's prison to two sites, one near Mitchell and one near Worthing. The task force rejected the original proposed site in ...

An independent inquiry into the death of a notorious sex offender who preyed on young and vulnerable girls in one part of ...

Costa Rica ranks fifth in Latin America for incarceration, with 343 people per 100,000 behind bars, trailing only El Salvador, Cuba, Panama, and Brazil, according to the World Prison Brief. Globally, ...

The “Prison Break” reboot pilot at Hulu has added four new cast members in guest star roles, Variety has learned. Ray McKinnon (“Deadwood,” “Mayans MC”), Margo Martindale (“Justified ...

L-R: Ray McKinnon, Margo Martindale, Donal Logue, Lili Taylor and Sylvester Powell Marshall Persinger/Michael Becker/Rich Polk/Getty Images/Kevin Scanlon Elgin James‘ Prison Break pilot from ...

A Jefferson County man convicted of murder in a rock-throwing spree that killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday. Joseph ...

Last month, 10 men escaped a New Orleans prison by ripping out a toilet and climbing through a hole in the wall Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019.

PRINCETOWN — The Schenectady County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash over the weekend. Sheriff’s deputies found a vehicle in a ditch and the driver suffering ...

Kashif Abbasi, a senior police official, said 216 inmates fled the Malir prison in the capital of Sindh province before dawn on Tuesday. Of those, 78 had been recaptured, and none who fled was ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An Indiana architectural company with a track record of building prisons is suggesting the price tag for South Dakota’s new prison is too high. The company sent a ...

A female prison guard had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with 900 messages to keep the relationship going, a court in the UK has heard. Megann Gibson, 26, also allowed the ...

The family of Joshua Botwinski, who died of a fentanyl overdose at Waupun Correctional Institution, filed a lawsuit against former prison leadership. The lawsuit alleges that the former warden and ...