Officials in New Orleans are calling on an inmate to turn himself in after a clerical error led him to be mistakenly released from the same prison where 10 men escaped earlier this year

Oklahoma became the owner of the Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility, ending the state’s use of private prison contracts.

A Venezuelan migrant who was deported to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison has filed an administrative claim over what he says was his wrongful removal from the U.S.

Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison Friday on two murder conspiracy convictions in Arizona, marking an end to a winding legal saga for the mother with doomsday religious beliefs who claimed people in her life had been possessed by evil spirits.

David Farnsworth, 64, was sentenced to two and a half years in state prison for building a bomb in his home that if detonated, would have impacted anyone within a 300-meter radius, prosecutors said Friday.

Depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct discovered on cell phone in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.

A Malden man will serve time in federal prison for drug trafficking while his brother, also charged in the case, remains a fugitive, the U.S. Attorney said Friday.

Three of the 250 Venezuelans who were held in El Salvador's CECOT prison after bring deported from the U.S. say they were beaten and denied access to lawyers.