HARTFORD — A lawsuit accusing state prison officials of failing to properly diagnose and treat a disease that ultimately ...

The attorney for the family of Alan Alterisi argued Monday that a review of his death while at Osborn Correctional ...

Mexico’s Fatima Bosch crowned Miss Universe winner in glittering finale of scandal-hit pageant ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers are calling for the return of a female inmate who was sexually assaulted by prison guards and ...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s time at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas has come under scrutiny since her transfer there in early ...

In response to backlash, the attorney general says the state "strongly disputes Ms. Gregory’s claim and is defending the case ...

Jail officials in Indiana mistakenly released the wrong inmate after identical twins were both taken into custody for separate incidents, authorities said. According to the Marion County Sheriff's ...

When Erin Moulton learned what really happened to her great-aunt, she couldn't ignore the echoes of today's fights over ...

Tremane Wood is set to be executed on Nov. 13 for the 2002 killing of 19-year-old Ronnie Wipf, who was stabbed in the heart ...

A Canadian man serving a 40-year federal sentence for plotting a terrorist attack in New York City has pleaded guilty to violently assaulting two correctional officers inside a Pennsylvania prison, ...

Anthony Todd Boyd was executed on Thursday for the 1993 murder of a man who was burned alive in an Alabama baseball field over a $200 cocaine debt.

Under Franco’s dictatorial regime, women’s roles were rigidly controlled by the ideology of National Catholicism, which linked femininity, motherhood and loyalty to the state. The church reinforced ...