Lisa’s crime story involves her entire family. Her parents, brothers, aunts and uncles all have a record. As she works to put ...

Correction officers in New York's prison system have been on strike for nearly two weeks, and a tentative agreement appears to have been reached.

CoreCivic, through its Leavenworth prison, wants to hold up to 1,000 detained immigrants. The United States does not have ...

Rafael Caro Quintero, an alleged cartel boss who spent decades in prison in Mexico for the murder of a U.S. drug enforcement ...

Dontae Smith pleaded guilty but mentally ill to three counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder and ...

The wife of a powerful drug cartel boss — who has a $15 million bounty on his head in the U.S. — was released from prison in ...

A contract to reopen a privately-owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered ...

Some released detainees have come back to find their homes destroyed and family members killed. Israel says it releases ...

A 57-year-old former teacher at a high school in Ocean County accused of having sexual contact with a student has been placed ...

William Hank Taylor is already home on medical furlough, although he got a life sentence for growing marijuana in south ...

For the CBS Mornings series, "The State of Spirituality with Lisa Ling," she takes a look at why so many people are ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says an agreement has been reached to end a work stoppage at state correctional facilities.