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.

Each year, about 2,475 prisoners return to Milwaukee County. This raises a critical question: Who do we want these ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

An inmate at the Menominee Tribal Detention Center has pleaded guilty to serious drug charges related to an overdose death.

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota man accused of helping his son hide four bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, online court records show. Dunn County ...

SHELTON, Wash. — A 66-year-old Shelton, Washington, man was sentenced to 90 months in prison Friday for his role in a drug ...

Colorado lawmakers are trying to make it a right — rather than a privilege — for inmates in the state’s prisons to receive visitation while incarcerated.

Chirstian Rivera-Carrion died after being found unresponsive in the federal prison in Leavenworth Sunday night, authorities ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to prison for living under a homeless person’s name for three decades and having the victim imprisoned when he tried to reclaim his identity.