Mr. Peltier’s murder conviction and two life sentences, stemming from a 1975 shootout with F.B.I. agents on a reservation, ...

Feb. 5, 1954, in the Daily Times-News: "Eighteen-year-old Gertrude Van Westrienen, who admitted smuggling hacksaw blades into ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will veto a bill that would block his state’s prison system from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), his office told Fox News Digital.

“Certainly, if I were leading the [Bureau of Prisons] or if I were working in the BOP, I wouldn’t want to suggest that there are any monstrous conditions in my facilities,” she said.

AS PART OF OUR LOCAL HISTORY WEB SERIES ... BE SENTENCED TO DEATH AND HER DEFENSE ATTEMPTING TO SPARE HER BY LIFE IN PRISON. WHEN THE CLOSING STATEMENTS WERE FINISHED, THE JURY RETURNED.

but to educate its participants through workshops and exhibitions about prison history and other engaging topics. The 400-year-old prison holds a lot of history, allowing for a unique and ...

In the dark hours before dawn, “Slick Willie” Sutton and four other inmates, dressed in stolen guard uniforms, crossed the old Holmesburg Prison yard with a pair of ladders and confronted the ...

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson ...

My Prison brings a unique twist to the prison-based games available on Roblox. It essentially allows you to create your own and tons of other activities are also available to keep you engaged. The ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

This gap in knowledge has led pyramid conspiracy theories to proliferate. Below, we at Sky HISTORY investigate several of the most famous — and explain why they don’t hold water. Historians think that ...