Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) was a firebrand literary critic, poet, and democracy activist. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, just months into an 11-year prison sentence that would ...

CoreCivic, the sole private prison operator in the state, currently meets the threshold for reduction, according to state Sen. Mark Pody, who introduced the bill during legislative debate.

This May, the results of a two-year investigation into drinking water contamination at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione was published by the online criminal justice publication The Appeal and the ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating after a death row inmate was killed at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Friday. Convicted murderer ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A man involved in a scam that stole tens of thousands of dollars from Granite Staters could be in prison for eight years after he was sentenced Wednesday. Oumar Diallo, 23 ...

Task force recommends $600M men's prison, down from DOC's $825M ask State House Majority Leader Scott Odenbach, R-Spearfish, made a motion to limit the total budgetary cost for the construction of ...

Unrest in a prison northeast of Nashville has been contained, the sheriff says, and all prisoners returned to their cells after officers sprayed chemical agents into the prison yard.

R. Kelly's attorneys file an emergency motion seeking home detention, alleging that prison officials are scheming with racist inmates to have the singer killed.

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is seeking to cancel $500 million for a planned federal prison on a former mine in Eastern Kentucky.

A man who protested at the S.C. State House was sentenced to prison Thursday after throwing a barricade at an officer during a George Floyd protest in May 2020. Joshua Boucher jboucher@thestate ...

R. Kelly's lawyers are requesting his release after an alleged murder-for-hire plot in his North Carolina prison. Born Robert Kelly, the 58-year-old singer has been serving a 30-year sentence for ...

The daughter of a human rights lawyer held in a prison located in an area targeted by Israeli missile strikes has begged for his release. Mehraveh Khandan's father, Reza Khandan, has been in Evin ...