A new report says delays in building four replacement jails mean the city will miss the legally mandated Rikers closure date.

MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) — Jhoan Bastidas was deported from the United States and spent 16 days at the U.S. naval base in ...

A former prison guard pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three inmates in Hawaii, federal officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A 47-year-old former prison guard pleaded guilty to sexually ...

Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most ...

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been sentenced to one year in prison for defying the rulings of the top international official overseeing peace in the Balkan country. The court in the ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

“Temptation Island” is getting even more spicy as it heads to Netflix for the first time. In the first trailer for the upcoming relationship series, a new twist is revealed that will shake up ...

South Korea’s president is fighting to stay in office and out of prison after martial law fiasco. Here’s what happens next By Mike Valerio , Gawon Bae and Yoonjung Seo , CNN ...

The villain in that counterespionage drama was Ames, who was arrested in 1994 and is still in federal prison for life at the age of 83. Nevertheless, key questions linger. Who is handling security ...

The deaths were the first in 2025 to be connected to the Rikers Island jail complex ... murder as a teenager and served about 30 years in prison before being released in 2017, according to ...