Nearly a century ago, the deadliest prison fire in U.S. history unfolded in Columbus on the site where the Arena District was ...

When Hollywood’s stars walk the red carpet for the 98 th Academy Awards tonight, one nominee will not be a love story or epic drama but the tragedy repeated daily inside Alabama’s overcrowded prisons.

The medium-security prison in Holdenville, Oklahoma, has had 22 homicides in the last four years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Oscar nomination almost feels like an afterthought, according to the directors of “The Alabama Solution.” The critically ...

Marylynn Roper is standing by in Santa Fe to anchor our coverage of the first anniversary of the penitentiary riot that occurred exactly 1 year ago today. The event, of course, shocked all of America ...

Michigan Department of Corrections data shows chronic officer vacancies throughout all of Michigan’s 26 prisons, but no ...

A Journal Sentinel analysis of the 272 people on ICE's "worst of the worst" list in Wisconsin found several people with no ...