The medical parole program was officially created by a state law that took effect in 2011 and was expanded in 2014 to help reduce prison crowding so severe that federal judges ruled it was ...

Italy has inaugurated its first sex room for prisoners, following a Constitutional Court ruling that recognized inmates' right to intimate meetings. The initial visit occurred at a prison in Umbria, ...

Caring for a rapidly aging prison population is a growing problem across the United States. It is twice as expensive to imprison older people than those younger, according to Johns Hopkins University ...

Henry William Beck, 52, of 737 W. Third St., apartment 3, along with Kameco Sikes, 28, of 742 W. Third St., and Johnathan ...

On the eve of his New York retrial, the fallen mogul spends 23 hours a day alone in his cell, reading biographies and compulsively calling his "prison consultant" (who also looks out for Luigi ...

A Burlington man has been sentenced to prison after police say he beat a woman so bad she had to be hospitalized last fall.