After spending a decade as a crime reporter, CNN Hero Debra Des Vignes created the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, a nonprofit writing program that helps incarcerated people work through trauma and find community.

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to convert Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison could cost roughly $2 billion, Axios reported on Friday citing administration sources.

A sign outside the main gate of the Correctional Facility in Faribault warns of security dogs, but a special litter of Labrador puppies inside the fences that are providing inmates with a different kind of personal safety.

A federal judge admitted making a mistake and has reinstated PrimeCare Medical Inc. as a defendant in the lawsuit over the 2019 death of Dauphin County inmate, Ty'Rique Riley.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong tightened prison rules, allowing authorities to restrict visits, including those by certain lawyers and religious personnel, on national security grounds, in the latest expansion of its stringent control.

The attack left the 61-year-old prisoner unconscious with a perforated eardrum, and fellow officers allegedly ignored his injuries for 13 hours.

Kyle Christopher Benton pleaded guilty in March to charges of possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered short-barrel rifle.

A New York City man who stabbed two teenage tourists from Paraguay at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day 2023 was sentenced Friday to more than 26 years in prison. Esteban Esono-Asue, 38, also known as Steven Hutcherson,