Chase Noah Henderson, 24, of Kennesaw, is accused of escape and battery on another inmate at the Cobb County Adult Detention ...

When Illinois shuttered the century-old maximum security facility last year, nearly four of every five inmates went to less-secure sites.

Uncertainty in federal funding under President Donald Trump's administration has made a tough state budget season even more ...

Freed hostages' mothers say daughters kept diaries during 477 days in captivity; one says she would've looked like emaciated ...

Georgia police arrested the man after the McLennan County Sheriff's Office obtained an arrest warrant for the suspect for possession of child pornography.

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia’s troubled prison system, they may face an extra challenge: Conditions inside the wire appear to be getting even worse.

Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them, saying the state ...

Regis Darnell Jackson, 35, was found unresponsive inside a housing unit Wednesday morning, according to officials.

A former prison officer has been sentenced for smuggling methamphetamine inside a Georgia state prison. Nicholas Grindle, 32, ...

USAID lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration froze foreign ...

Kosovars cast their votes Sunday in a parliamentary election considered a key test for Prime Minister Albin Kurti as talks on normalizing ties with rival Serbia remain ...