Peru’s former First Lady Nadine Heredia and her youngest son are traveling to Brazil after the neighboring country granted her asylum.

Ashlie Morris was sentenced to six months in correction center. A co-defendant in the case, Victor McCoy of Massillon, will be sentenced on May 19.

"There's no reason to have a continued debate this morning with where we are in the session," Sen. Dismang said.

It’s been more than 150 years since anyone has given any serious thought on what to make of 15 acres of prime real estate ...

North Dakota state and corrections officials broke ground April 2 for a new women's prison in Mandan that aims to replace an aging facility south of Dickinson and address inmate ...

Over the last several decades, women’s incarceration has grown much more rapidly than men’s, especially in rural areas, ...

ATLANTA - The process has begun to convert Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto into a prison for women and young men. Georgia Department of Corrections spokesman Brian Owens said Thursday the prison, ...

Chennai: Banging their plates on the jail cell bars all day and night, not letting other inmates sleep, Nigerian drug peddlers at the Special Prison for Women in Chennai found this to be a way to ...

When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina for the murder of his then-girlfriend’s parents, it was the first time in 15 years that an execution in the United ...

Before her position at Metro TC, Jackson held roles including Correctional Officer II at Metro State Prison, Chief of Security, Unit Manager at Lee Arrendale State Prison, and Assistant ...

The two women, 47-year-old Tania Thomas and 62-year-old Stephanie Brinson, who also went by Stephanie Dowells, were both allegedly strangled during what the state prison system calls "family ...

Tania Thomas, 47, and Stephanie Dowells, 62, were each allegedly strangled to death during conjugal visits with their husbands at Mule Creek State Prison Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE ...