Whether or not officials want to debate the contentious issue, thanks to an obscure provision of the county charter, their ...

Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato said the agreement is meant to improve public safety while still complying with a ...

Both the prosecution and the three defense lawyers for the Marcy Prison Trial have made their opening statements to the jury.

An Oneida County jury began hearing testimony Tuesday at trial of three former correction officers implicated in beating ...

Prisoners across history have devised surprising, often cinematic, escapes from the confines that hold them. Whether it be a 17th-century Robin Hood staging a series of folklore-inspiring prison ...

Mo Munshi’s story is a cautionary tale for Australian executives plying their trades in far-flung regions of the world.

South Africa's racist apartheid regime said no one was to blame for activist Steve Biko's death in prison. 48 years later, ...

What will the video and other evidence show? A series of prison guards at the Marcy Correctional Facility effectively turned ...

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of ...

Now, Iqbal is considering suing the U.S. government for unlawful detention. "I am angry in my heart," Iqbal said in a recent interview. "It's easy for the U.S. government to say, ...

The prosecution and the defense attorneys in the Robert Brooks case lay the foundation going forward in the case against ...