A former Youngwood man told a Westmoreland County jury Wednesday that a letter he sent to a prosecutor was not a threat.

Staff at the Brown County Jail recognized the woman as a repeat visitor. Perhaps she had picked another fight with a stranger at a restaurant or other public place. Or maybe it was a dispute with her ...

Josh Duggar and Joe Exotic are now housed at the same federal medical prison in Texas, where strict visitation and ...

The intake program is to "gather information on past and present mental illness and substance abuse, mental health treatment needs and to assess the inmate’s current psychological functioning." ...

Federal prison officials cost taxpayers millions of dollars and prematurely freed inmates through faulty enforcement of a ...

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — More than half of the people jailed in New York state wind up back in jail within three years of their release, according to the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services. One jail ...

The same can't be said as you walk the halls of the prison unit in Rosharon, Texas, where tension and hypervigilance are part of everyday survival for many inmates. But inside the prison chapel, there ...

Bryson Butler, a Kitsap County man who chose treatment over more prison time, now says the state sent him somewhere very different from what the judge had in mind. He has filed a federal lawsuit ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY)— Offering help to those behind bars, Norfolk City Jail has a list of reentry programs so incarcerated men and women can have the education and support to be successful when they ...

Rochester, N.Y. — A pilot program is using music to empower people who are incarcerated and struggling to find a path forward. Five incarcerated individuals at the Monroe County Jail spent the past ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Rico Chavez remembers the number that replaced his name. "289535. I wish I didn't remember it, but it's something that I'm going to remember forever," Chavez said. It's the ...