CRANSTON – The locks on some prison cell doors in Maximum Security at the Adult Correctional Institutions are malfunctioning, “a real significant problem,” says the head of the correctional officers’ ...

Officials in Maverick County openly acknowledge that poor defendants accused of minor crimes are rarely provided lawyers. And ...

Officials described the disturbing conditions that a Waterbury, Connecticut, man endured during 20 years of captivity.

If Prison Break had been a one-and-done limited series it would have secured a higher placing on this list. As it stands, ...

A former principal of an elementary school in Waterbury claimed that school officials raised several concerns about the boy ...

A huge haul of weapons was found stashed in cells in Greater Manchester's four prisons during a crackdown on drones and drugs ...

Worse' than a jail cell: Police provide update in case of a man held captive ... holding her stepson in was equipped with “a number of different styles of exterior locks.” “That room did have exterior ...

More than a decade has passed since Amanda Knox was cleared of her housemate’s murder. But public scrutiny has continued to ...

A severely emaciated Connecticut man was allegedly forced to urinate in bottles and locked inside for nearly 24 hours a day ...

Conditions at the Cleveland County Detention Center surfaced in a hearing Wednesday afternoon at the Cleveland County Courthouse. “This is a disaster waiting to happen,” attorney James Radford said in ...