After spending a decade as a crime reporter, CNN Hero Debra Des Vignes created the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, a nonprofit writing program that helps incarcerated people work through trauma and find community.

A sign outside the main gate of the Correctional Facility in Faribault warns of security dogs, but a special litter of Labrador puppies inside the fences that are providing inmates with a different kind of personal safety.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong tightened prison rules, allowing authorities to restrict visits, including those by certain lawyers and religious personnel, on national security grounds, in the latest expansion of its stringent control.

City officials have eyed Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' links to the White House as stepping stones to address Fort Smith's consent decree quagmire.

A New York City man who stabbed two teenage tourists from Paraguay at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day 2023 was sentenced Friday to more than 26 years in prison. Esteban Esono-Asue, 38, also known as Steven Hutcherson,

Brigham Jones, 50, was convicted on more than 30 charges including rape and sexual battery. One victim confronted him in court after enduring five years of abuse.

The attack left the 61-year-old prisoner unconscious with a perforated eardrum, and fellow officers allegedly ignored his injuries for 13 hours.

According to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, 39-year-old Steven Orona was sentenced for first-degree murder and drive-by shooting in the death of Larry Milligan.