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.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took a tour of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay Thursday morning as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed.

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.

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.

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

City officials have eyed Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' links to the White House as stepping stones to address Fort Smith's consent decree quagmire.

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.

A night of of heavy drinking and violence has resulted in a 10-year prison sentence for a Waynesboro man. "I was so drunk, I don't even remember none of it," Jeffrey F. Massie Sr. said on July 15 in Augusta County Circuit Court.

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,