A year after spending nearly five million dollars to buy an old motel off I-40, the city is close to finishing work on that ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum se ...

GEO Group responded to a request for information last fall indicating openness to using the facility for immigration ...

The powerful prison syndicate known as the Aryan Brotherhood has moved to expand its reach, testimony and court records show, ...

Hawaiʻi lawmakers passed the state budget Wednesday that includes $30 million to complete the planning for a new jail to ...

In the lettercard, dated April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship.

Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway.

San Quentin inmates reunite with service dogs they raised Prisoner from San Bernardino killed by fellow inmate at Lancaster ...

Norfolk State University broke ground on a new $118 million science building Friday. The 131,376-square-foot, four-story structure will replace the Roy A. Woods Science Building, and will include ...

BLOEMFONTEIN - Five years after his arrest for corruption, former Free State premier Ace Magashule finally has his day in court. The R250-million asbestos trial is underway in the Free State High ...

Last month, Pennsylvania corrections Secretary Laurel Harry announced that the state would expand its Scandinavian-inspired approach to three new facilities ... or norms in typical prison environments ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation posted on their website the following units will be on lockdown with no visitation: Arizona State Prison Complex-Eyman's Rynning unit ...