WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of prominent Hong Kong former publisher Jimmy Lai, who is facing possible life imprisonment in the Chinese city, called Tuesday for his father’s release in a high-profile ...

Multiple corrections officers and a prisoner were sent to the hospital after a fight broke out at the Macomb Correctional ...

Three people were transported to the hospital about 2 p.m. Those included two corrections officers and one inmate, according ...

Two inmates at the Department of Corrections face new charges after another man was attacked at the prison and sent to the hospital, according to a magistrate’s complaint filed in Superior Court.

One union leader said a Michigan prison is being told to accept all inmates, including immigrant children, when it is only equpped for adults.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner ...

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

A woman accused of being drunk when she crashed her SUV into a birthday party at a Michigan boat club, killing two children, ...

Twenty-three inmates at the troubled federal jail in Brooklyn have been charged with crimes ranging from smuggling weapons in ...

When URI’s seven-foot center Javonte Brown was a ninth grader, his mom Felecia took him to work on a school-sponsored take ...

An inmate has died while in custody at the Monroe County Jail in southeast Michigan, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office ...

Innovative program arrives at Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson, aiming to keep eventual parolees behind the wheel and ...