A man convicted in the first trial highlighting U.S. claims that China harasses its critics overseas was sentenced Wednesday ...

A military doctor who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing dozens of male soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was sentenced ...

The son of an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards said in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that ...

South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith told an unknown male caller that she "wouldn't talk" to the media weeks before she was ...

We won’t tolerate public officials breaching the public’s trust to help criminals, whether they are family or not.” ...

Lack of funds for repairs mean jail cells are taken out of service as fast as new ones are built, governors warn ...

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on 13 female prisoners at ...

"When I look back, I don't really remember the father that I thought he was. I look straight to the criminal, the sexual ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

Joshua Gonzalez, 40, of South Whitehall Township, on Monday pleaded guilty to 20 counts of felony possession of child ...

After a convicted murderer was moved to a lower-level facility, a prison guard was sexually assaulted and held hostage for ...

Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are working to extinguish the massive blaze scorching Los Angeles. Here's how much they ...