Augustus Frazier reads from a prepared statement in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. He was sentenced to life in prison ...

With accounts of overcrowded cells, filth-choked showers, and a kitchen sink that drained directly onto the floor, a new ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

The penitentiary closed in the 1960s and has become one of San Francisco’s top tourist destinations.

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a ...

A mom accused of killing her two elementary school-aged children with a meat cleaver is heading to prison for life, ...

Trump says Alcatraz, now part of the National Park Service, suddenly is needed to house America’s “most ruthless and violent” ...

President Donald Trump on Monday called for former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to be released from prison, where she is ...

Ricky Wassenaar killed three sex offenders at an Arizona State Prison near Tucson on April 4. Here's why he says he did it.

In 1946, a violent but failed escape attempt — set off with guns and riot clubs that a group of cons managed to obtain — led ...

Calvin Crew was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the fatal shooting of 38-year-old Christina Spicuzza in ...

On-the-run Harri Pullen, who had a romantic relationship with prison nurse Elyse Hobbs and phone sex with officer Ruth Shmylo ...