A woman from Joplin has been given a 13-year prison sentence after she stole more than $700,000 from an elderly blind woman.

They were written on her official Senate stationery in her distinctive cursive handwriting ... De Lima explained that she had ...

Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

KINSHASA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - More than 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during an attempted mass escape from Democratic Republic of Congo's Makala Central Prison this month, an internal ...

A photo of Nyrhinen shows his detailed facial tattoos which appear to include various words written in cursive and two knuckle dusters along his jaw. Police describe him as '170cm tall with a ...

Now, tourists will be able to get a glimpse for themselves of the fortresslike sandstone prison, where Capote interviewed Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, two drifters who were convicted of murdering ...

Thousands of inmates were released early on Tuesday as part of the government's plan to deal with prison overcrowding. About 1,700 prisoners in England and Wales were freed on the first day of the ...

Wayne, a former inmate at Berwyn Prison, in Wrexham, was among those prisoners released early on Tuesday. He was released from the north Wales prison three months early, where he had been serving ...

The prison population reached a new record high of 88,521 people on Friday and has risen by more than 1,000 people over the past four weeks. Chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, said that ...

Green, who was previously handed a prison sentence after he attacked his own mother, will only spend four months in jail. Others set to be freed include drug dealer Patrick Scotland, of west ...

There aren’t enough prison places. Capacity has come within 100 places of being exhausted in England and Wales in recent weeks. It currently stands at around 350, I am told - ie pretty much full.

A week after the deadly escape attempt at Makala prison, many blame disastrous prison conditions for making a bad situation worse. A police vehicle leaves the Makala central prison in Kinshasa ...