A former U.S. Space Force signals intelligence analyst was sentenced to decades behind bars for shooting two suspected teen car thieves and killing one of them.

An internal review reveals that a former police chief, known as the "Devil in the Ozarks," spent months planning his escape from an Arkansas prison.

A former correctional officer at the women’s prison in Chowchilla was sentenced to 224 years on Thursday for sexually assaulting nine inmates over an 11-year period.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrival to the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, this month has sent a shot of tension across its minimum-security all-female units, even while her lawyer says she’s in a safer facility as there is intense political inquiry around Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.

A former St. Cloud police officer was recently sentenced to three years in prison for illegally selling guns, some of which he was told would be trafficked overseas, court records show.

BEIRUT (AP) — Human Rights Watch alleged Thursday that an Israeli airstrike on a notorious Iranian prison was “an apparent war crime”, while also accusing Tehran of harming and disappearing prisoners after the attack.

Three teens have escaped the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland and are still on the run. The three boys — two 17-year-olds and one 14-year-old — escaped around 12:30 p.m., according to Maine Department of Corrections spokesperson Samuel Prawer.

Senators call for a public hearing after roughly a quarter of the inmates have been transferred and the facility is expected to be nearly half-empty by mid-September.