Potentially volatile cellmates are a fact of life in California prisons. That may change as the state's incarcerated population declines, freeing up space for single-person quarters.

As a criminal defence lawyer, I’ve seen prisons function less like places of correction and more like warehouses of violence, addiction and despair. Yet, while knives, drugs and contraband circulate ...

The increase comes despite the formation of a dedicated intelligence cell meant to curb smuggling of contraband inside the ...

No one is ever safe on Mayor of Kingstown, and that’s part of the beauty of the show. Still, that doesn’t mean it’s not surprising or deeply upsetting to see certain characters go down, and Season 4’s ...

The suspect, Glenn Cox, 39, is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in the San Joaquin Valley, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement.

New Oklahoma laws are about giving released inmates a real opportunity to make the most of their second chance.

Combs, who was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, requested he serve his 50-month (just ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was transferred to the New Jersey federal prison FCI Fort Dix on Thursday after a federal judge sentenced him to 50 months in prison.

The Brazilian is being held at Penitentiary II of Tremembé, in the state of São Paulo, after the local courts validated a sentence from Italian courts for a case of gang rape committed in 2013. The ...

The state's investment reflects that philosophy: Green Hill's daily per-inmate cost dwarfs that of adult institutions. "To ...

NEW YORK -- Rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison after a jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in July. He ...