Eric Hafner, a fringe candidate for Congress, is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison. He's running in Alaska's lone ...

A New York man accused of sexual assault should serve at least a decade in prison if he opts to take a plea deal, according ...

Lamson, who used to work as Fowler’s judge, was accused of soliciting sexual bribes from defendants in criminal cases he ...

Voters appear to be rejecting Proposition 6 in California, a measure to end involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.

The man reportedly became irate and made threatening remarks, including threatening to return to the polling place with a gun ...

As part of a sweeping two-year investigation into prison labor, The Associated Press found that correctional staff nationwide ...

A 42-year-old Rochester man is expected to spend the next 16 years in prison after he was found guilty of having and selling ...

Though Trump was convicted of a felony in New York, it is a low-level offense and as a non-violent first-time offender (and former president) he was always more likely to face fines or other penalties ...

a medium-security prison in Elmore, Ala. Work-release inmates often fear being sent back to the state’s medium- and high-security prisons.Credit...Audra Melton for The New York Times Supported ...

Two inmates locked up for child sex crimes died on the same day last week at an upstate New York prison. William Brand and Robert Fisher were declared dead at 2:52 a.m. and 1:50 a.m., ...

A lawsuit objecting to conditions on the Louisiana State Penitentiary's "farm line" is among at least three legal challenges ...

The most recent data, recorded through October 27, indicates that assaults on staff have reached 1,736 incidents, exceeding ...