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Another inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center wrote in a letter submitted to the court that Maxwell also volunteered to teach English and help others get GED certificates.

Corrections officials said Saturday they are investigating the killing of an inmate attacked by four felons at a high-security facility in Folsom, marking the third slaying this week in a California state prison.

Stewart’s pottery class is just one of the many crafty activities that she did while incarcerated.

In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free

Mack is best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville.”

A California prison program that employs inmates illegally spent $1.3 million on goods and salaries, including $82,000 in artificial turf that has gone unused, as part of a pattern of “gross misconduct,” state auditors said.

Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S., and nearly half still have not been caught

Shortly after the sadistic torture slaying and beheading of a convicted killer in a California prison, apparently at the hands of his cellmate, prison guards making their rounds reported that both men were alive, according to two new reports from the state inspector’s general office.

After Prince Philip’s death last week at age 99, politicians and world leaders rushed to eulogize his lifetime of service to his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, and to the British nation

Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died early Wednesday in a federal prison

Illinois has agreed to the early release of some low- to medium-risk inmates as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit over the coronavirus

Prison guards are refusing coronavirus vaccines at alarming rates

Street artist Banksy has confirmed that he was behind an artwork that appeared on the red brick wall of a former prison in the English town of Reading.

Ex-NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II, who committed sexual offenses against five women in Northern San Diego County, is slated to be sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in state prison.

An advisory committee recommends California should allow all but death row inmates and those serving life-without-parole to request lighter sentences after serving at least 15 years.

In prisons around the country, COVID-19 outbreaks have followed transfers of prisoners or prison workers.

“Full House” star Lori Loughlin has reported to a California federal prison to serve her two-month sentence for her part in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scam, an official at the facility told NBC News. Loughlin and and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were required to begin serving their prison sentences by Nov. 19. They admitted to paying…

The coronavirus pandemic has kept many of us separated from our loved ones. That is particularly true for children with a parent who is incarcerated. Alyssa Tamboura is doing what she can to make sure those families stay connected. Garvin Thomas reports.

The coronavirus pandemic has kept many of us separated from our loved ones. That is particularly true for children with a parent who is incarcerated. Alyssa Tamboura is doing what she can to make sure those families stay connected. Garvin Thomas reports.

Gov. Newsom announced the closure of a state prison in his latest step to reduce California’s incarceration footprint.