A Newton resident will begin to serve a prison sentence for aggravated domestic battery. 18-year-old Kaileb Keener was arrested in September on a Class X felony count of aggravated battery of a child.

My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...

Jason R. Engler was transported from the Graham Correctional Center to the Shelby County Courthouse, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of grooming. This accused him of gaining the trust of an ...

The offense(s) listed may be the initial booking charge or an amended charge. They are not an admission of guilt, nor do they guarantee a conviction of any/all charges listed. All parties are ...

A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put to death on Wednesday — and uttered chilling last words prior to being executed. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. Photo ...

They’re gonna die the same way the other guy did,” Zahkee said. Because Zahkee is a juvenile, Dauphin County Prison must house him outside of the eyesight or earshot of adult inmates.

An Alabama Senate committee today delayed action on a bill that would authorize $500 million in bonds to help pay for a new 4,000-bed men’s prison in Escambia County. But Sen. Greg Albritton ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

SUNBURY — The Northumberland County Jail saw a decline in inmates over the past two months, according to prison officials. Warden Tom Reisinger gave his monthly report to the county prison board ...

Migrants deported from the US, and even “dangerous” American citizens convicted of heinous crimes could be headed to a notorious hellhole prison in El Salvador, where inmates live in ...

In slickly produced videos, prisoners in boxer shorts are marched into prison yards and made to sit nearly atop each other. They are packed into cells without enough bunks for everyone.