AKRON, Ohio — An Akron man will spend at least 15 years in prison following a spree of crimes that included his stealing a ...

When Alcatraz closed in 1963, it was in such bad shape that the federal government ruled it would be more cost effective to ...

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Chronicle of Higher Education investigate university-run prison health care ...

California lawmakers reacted to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would reopen Alcatraz with laughter, mockery and, ...

An Ohio man faces up to life in prison if convicted of strangling a 24-year-old woman he met at a San Jose bar 48 years ago, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office ...

Hours” this week profiles the brazen slaying of Catina Rose Salarno, lured out of her Pacific dorm in 1979 and shot to death by her ex-boyfriend.

As the Trump administration ponders reopening of the notorious island prison, we ponder the Jewish ghosts who haunt it.

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

A timeline of Jon Keith Miller's criminal history is told with the help of court documents and images. Miller was convicted ...

Democrats and Republicans alike scoff at the idea of reopening the island prison that has served as a tourist attraction for ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...