Long overloaded with too many inmates, the state has turned to prisons as far off as Mississippi. Officials cite limited ...

By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell, her baby was dead.

Plans for a new mental health facility in eastern Montana are advancing. Deer Lodge County proposes two sites for a new women ...

The cotton is just beginning to bloom. It’s late August in the Mississippi Delta, an alluvial plain formed by soil deposited from the Missouri, Ohio and Mississ ...

Long overloaded with too many inmates and not enough space to hold them, the state has turned to prisons as far off as Mississippi. Officials cite limited options; inmates’ lawyers and families say ...

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has launched her reelection campaign as her party looks to bounce back nationally from ...

Hernan Castro has a big following among Arizona mushroom enthusiasts. He's been in federal lockup since late May.

Nearly two dozen incarcerated women received bachelor’s degrees through Cal State LA last Friday, marking the first all-female graduating class as part of a collaborative effort between the ...

Need some spooky season activities? Here are some of the best Halloween activities in the US, right here in Arizona.

Prison workshops on ending male violence against women and girls are changing conversations among inmates. Hundreds of convicted criminals in Northern Ireland's prisons have been voluntarily learning ...

MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — A man will spend 15 years in prison after being convicted for causing a fire at a Mesa apartment complex that severely injured a man last year. Lyle Terrence Samuel pleaded ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison ...