A Bay City man has begun serving his prison sentence for a “crime against nature.”

The Justice Department is seeking no prison time for a former officer who blindly shot into Breonna Taylor’s home during a botched 2020 raid that sparked a federal inquiry into policing in Louisville,

After spending a decade as a crime reporter, CNN Hero Debra Des Vignes created the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, a nonprofit writing program that helps incarcerated people work through trauma and find community.

A Villa Park man who robbed a Naperville bank and four other financial institutions has been sentenced to more than seven and a half years in federal prison.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appeared triumphant on Friday, celebrating the return to Venezuela of migrants held in El Salvador after being deported from the U.S., after Venezuela released 10 jailed Americans on Friday in exchange.

With the rhythmic pounding of taiko drums echoing through Don Biddle Community Park, a large group of Japanese Americans and their allies gathered Saturday afternoon to voice opposition to the proposed reopening of the federal prison in Dublin as an immigration detention center.

A North Texas man who attempted to enter a church with a rifle last year was sentenced to federal prison this week.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong tightened prison rules, allowing authorities to restrict visits, including those by certain lawyers and religious personnel, on national security grounds, in the latest expansion of its stringent control.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took a tour of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay Thursday morning as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

At the time, the man told police that his roommate attacked him and that he shot the other man “many times” in self defense.

An inmate at a state prison in Allegany County died on Friday, according to the Maryland State Police. The victim was identified as 30-year-old Elias Alvarado, who was incarcerated at North Branch Correctional Institution.