Maxson, 63, was freed in 2016 after another man confessed to the grisly stabbing death of a 6-year-old boy and DNA evidence ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

A constant component of the American character has been a suspicion of leaders who get too big for their britches. Jimmy ...

From politicians and political dissidents to civil rights activists to a Nobel prize-winning physicist, the world said ...

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 ...

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

Part sci-fi and part coming-of-age, the book weaves their storylines together to paint a modern portrait of what it means to fulfill the American Dream. Short-story writer Kelly Link weaves a ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced the grand jury charge Monday against District Attorney Chris Stanford. His district covers Van Buren and Warren counties. The indictment says that ...

A prison officer has been attacked and killed by an inmate while walking him back to his cell. Isaiah Patrick Bias, 28, had worked at the Ellis County Sheriff's Office in Texas for more than six ...

Syrians looking for information on people who disappeared under the former regime pick through documents at the infamous Sednaya prison near Damascus on Tuesday. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The ...

This year’s top titles range from an alphabet book of quirky tunes to an authentic portrait of our nation Megan Gambino Senior Editor When I first started compiling this year-end book list ...

At least seven correctional officers have pleaded guilty or been convicted on charges of sexual abuse at the prison. The case against an eighth officer is still pending. Last year, a former prison ...