The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter.

Frank C. Jackson pleaded no contest in October to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the January ...

Frank Jackson was sentenced on Friday as part of a plea deal reached last October. Jackson pled no contest to one count of attempted homicide. In exchange, the state dropped multiple other charges ...

Anthony Michael Sandoval II has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to eight counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency ...

Fifty-five years after Missouri murderer Sharon Kinne escaped from a Mexican prison, American authorities confirm the fugitive had, for decades, been hiding in a small Alberta town.

Investigators are working to determine if a man serving a prison term for a Sacramento County burglary was killed by his cellmate on Wednesday, according to the California Department of Corrections ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A line of white buses carrying Palestinian prisoners set to be released left Ofer prison in the West Bank.

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to prepare a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants.

A criminal complaint filed after the man's arrest said he placed the flyers on pre-targeted locations of Latino-owned businesses and homes.

JOPLIN, Mo. — There's something new at the Joplin Public Library highlighting the works of a Carthage man. New research of a ...

"My email is swamped with library, S.D. Public Broadcasting and the state penitentiary issues, along with $4 million in ...

A book found in a hallway outside of a British library turned to have been due back at the facility 49 years and six months ...