Twelve prisoners have been charged with murder and other crimes after a deadly fight at a Georgia state prison.

A large fight at an Arizona prison left multiple inmates hurt and has led to conflicting reports about how serious it was. Ryan Thornell, director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A convicted robber now has some in the law enforcement community behind his fight for freedom. 62-year-old Paige Spears was convicted of an armed robbery that was in Ferguson ...

Russia, which has a massive prison network inherited from Soviet labour camps, has one of the world's largest convict ...

Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, (CNN) — Lurking in the bushes near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is a unit of men who have two things in common: The short amount of time they have served defending their ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A former naval officer who served 16 years in prison after admitting to hiring hit men to kill his wife died after an altercation with another prison inmate at the Department of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A convicted robber now has some in the law enforcement community behind his fight for freedom. 62-year-old ...