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A 77-year-old prison escapee who had been on the run for nearly half a century was captured this week at his home in New Mexico, the FBI said.

Tents were set up in the yard of San Quentin State Prison to treat inmates with COVID-19. At least 1,011 cases of the virus have been reported.

A man incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison risked possible consequences to record a video about what it’s like inside the prison during a widespread COVID-19 outbreak.

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and ‘fixer’ for President Donald Trump, was released two years early from prison over coronavirus concerns. He will serve the remainder of his three-year sentence at home.

The response from the federal Bureau of Prisons to the growing coronavirus crisis in prisons has raised alarm among advocates and lawmakers about whether the agency is doing enough to ensure the safety of the nearly 150,000 inmates serving time in federal facilities.

A coalition of prisoner rights organizations has sued Los Angeles County and its sheriff’s department for allegedly failing to protect jail inmates from the threat of the coronavirus. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed Friday by JusticeLA in federal court, seeks to require the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to comply with guidelines issued by public health agencies to cut...

Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly a decade into his life sentence for murder, Lydell Grant was escorted out of a Texas prison in November with his hands held high, free on bail, all thanks to DNA re-examined by a software program. “The last nine years, man, I felt like an animal in a cage,” Grant, embracing his mother and brother, told the crush of reporters...

A U.S. citizen who went on a hunger strike and who claimed he was wrongfully imprisoned in Egypt died on Monday after spending six years behind bars, the State Department said.

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, was sentenced on Thursday to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud.

Art Laboe, a 93-year-old DJ based in Palm Springs credits one group of listeners for keeping him on the air after 75 years: family members who want to send messages to loved ones in prison.

Long before notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia, lawmakers, advocates and even prison guards had been sounding the alarm about dangerous conditions there.

One of the alleged victims of the so-called “Dine-and-Dash Dater” testified Tuesday that she used part of her rent money to pay the check after he allegedly left the Pasadena restaurant where they had shared a meal on their first date.

President Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson Wednesday after meeting with Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office last week. Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother, had served 22 years of a life sentence for a first time non-violent offense after being convicted of drug possession and money laundering. The commutation is different from a pardon in that it does not…

Rapper Meek Mill was sentenced Monday to two to four years in prison on probation violations.

A look back at Alcatraz’s history, one of the Bay Area’s most popular tourist attractions

The United States accused Syria on Monday of executing thousands of imprisoned political opponents and burning their bodies in a crematorium to hide the evidence. The allegation could test the Trump administration’s willingness to respond to atrocities, other than chemical weapons attacks, that it blames on President Bashar Assad’s government. The allegation of mass killings came as President Donald Trump...

California could dramatically change the way it pressures criminal defendants to show up for court, doing away with monetary bail for most and taking income into account for others to ensure poor suspects get an equal shot at freedom.

California could dramatically change the way it pressures criminal defendants to show up for court, doing away with monetary bail for most and taking income into account for others to ensure poor suspects get an equal shot at freedom.

Visitors heading to Ohio for the Republican National Convention have the rare opportunity to rent the childhood home of one of the country’s most notorious killers.