At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene played out: A museum was restituting a work of art, giving back something from its collection to the place where ...

Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people who shared the things about prison that most people don't realize. The responses were honest, sobering, and, at times, completely ...

This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of ...

As the proposed closure of Rockview state prison looms, history provides some clues about what could happen with the aging facility if the recommendation from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration ...

The unauthorized prison strike is over after three weeks of lockdowns and policy debates; last week’s warm spell and rain led to many rivers across the North Country starting to break up ...

An old prison in Laval, Que., will be turned into affordable housing, the Government of Canada has confirmed. In a press release Saturday, federal Minister of Public Services and Procurement and ...

A 47-year-old Perry County man was found dead at a state prison in Centre County last week, officials said. Kevin Byler, of Newport, was found unresponsive in his cell at State Correctional ...

According to TMZ, Peterson, 51, was allegedly assaulted by a fellow inmate in the yard near his housing unit at California's Mule Creek State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence without ...

A member of a theft ring that stole numerous objects—including works by Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock—from museums over a 20-year span was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday (13 ...

New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state's correctional system, but said enough officers had come ...

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was freed from prison on Saturday after a court canceled his arrest to allow him to stand trial for rebellion without being physically detained.

Twenty people have been charged in connection with the deaths of three inmates who were killed in a maximum-security prison brawl in eastern Nevada last year, prosecutors said. The final arrest in ...