A North Carolina woman had a shocking discovery in the morning before heading to work — an escaped inmate was hiding out in ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for the 1988 rape and murder of 20-year-old Karen ...

A Washoe County judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by the family of slain Reno woman Hailey Nieto, bringing an end to the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to let Alabama execute convicted murderer Joseph Smith, whose IQ scores were ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy describes his time behind bars in a book released Wednesday. In "Diary of a Prisoner," he recounts his time in prison after being found guilty of ...

An Edenton woman told 10 On Your Side she had an encounter that was too close for comfort with an escaped inmate Monday ...

A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates. U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert says that a state law denying such care violates ...

The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office has released video of three inmates escaping the jail. Authorities are on the hunt for ...

Hundreds of pages of contraband reports paint a picture of a jail system where illegal drugs, from cocaine to MDMA or ...

Two inmates accused of violent crimes, including second-degree attempted murder, are on the run after escaping from a ...

Jail administrators in L.A., Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties struggle to meet the needs of a population that is ...

The director of Idaho's prison system has laid out plans to increase protections against sexual abuse of inmates and to increase accountability for those accused. The move comes ...