‘I want to return where I’m from’: Convicted murderer won’t fight extradition after LA prison escape

Derrick Groves told a judge he will not fight extradition during his first appearance on Thursday. On Wednesday, a SWAT team ...

New HBO documentary declares Alabama home to ‘America’s deadliest’ prisons

The documentary premiered Friday night on HBO Max and shows a six-year look inside Alabama's notorious prison system.
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Protecting federal prisons from shutdown benefits all of us

As the federal budget impasse wears on, Bureau of Prisons employees and programs are being further squeezed following a year ...

What to know about the capture of the last of 10 escapees from a New Orleans jail

All 10 fugitives who made a brazen escape from a New Orleans jail in May are back in custody after the last inmate was ...

Family of 6-year-old stabbed to death 'sickened' by suspect's early prison release

The family of 6-year-old Logan Tipton is outraged after Ronald Exantus, who admitted to killing the boy in 2015, was released early after serving only eight years.

Days after early release from prison, man convicted in Kentucky boy's death arrested in Florida

Ronald Exantus, linked to a 2015 Kentucky homicide, has been taken into custody in Florida for missing court-mandated registration.

Settlement reached after Albuquerque woman was killed by a man mistakenly released from prison

It is the end of a legal saga for the New Mexico Corrections Department, more than a decade after mistakenly releasing a man ...

Diddy wants to serve his sentence at a NJ prison previously home to 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli and mobsters

FCI Fort Dix has what's known as a Residential Drug Abuse Program that Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyer suggested would be ...