Prison

The clerk slipped Mill a note in November asking him to pay for her son's college tuition.

The frigid waters near Alcatraz have deadly currents and sharks. But there is mounting evidence three prisoners might have survived.

The inmate was carrying a bag full of booze, tobacco and a home-cooked meal.

Jared Kushner has been leading the White House's prison reform efforts.

Risk assessment algorithms are just as flawed as humans when it comes to deciding who walks free—and it's a growing problem.

Other reports have put the figure as high as $300 billion, a potential jackpot for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Several protests demanding pay for inmate labor and denouncing "inhumane" conditions have been planned at prisons and Florida Department of Corrections offices in Tallahassee and Miami.

This is part of an ongoing battle over inmate health care in Arizona.

The listening session is expected to include only politicians and religious and nonprofit leaders from the right and is not expected to include discussion on topics like prison conditions or sentencing reform.

Kushner has been hosting meetings with former inmates, faith leaders, members of Congress and prison experts.

More American civilians have been killed by guns over the past decade than died in World War II.

In addition to books, the new directive places limits on everything inmates can receive, from fresh produce and clothing to toiletry items and cosmetics.

The federal prison system will test new technology next week in an attempt to block smuggled cellphones used by inmates behind bars, the Department of Justice said Monday.

A transgender woman is seeking to be transferred to a female prison after enduring physical and sexual harassment at male prisons, she alleges.

'This is symbolic of the connection between a cotton field and modern day slavery, via the Prison Industrial Complex,' tweeted the Prison Reform Movement.

Money for treatment for opioid addiction is aimed overwhelmingly at whites.

For 50,000 American children, the holidays are handcuffs, locked rooms, razor wire, pepper spray and solitary confinement.

He is the first Pentagon chief to visit the detention center since 2002.

Walter Jordan's is one of several deaths at the center of an ongoing legal fight over inmate health care in Arizona -- and a window into how states use private companies to handle medical services for prisoners in an age of cash-strapped budgets.

British security services said Trump's policy on torture, if enacted, would "pose difficulties for the U.K.-U.S. intelligence relationship."

Inmates make up roughly a third of the force that fights wildfires in California.

Authorities believe the prisoner managed to cut through steel bars above the ceiling.

Prisoners are barred from reading more than 10,000 books.

A German court has ruled that Oskar Groening is fit to serve his sentence, which was handed down after a conviction for 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.

Scientists would research it even more if the law would let them.

Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine, formed by a gradual accumulation of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, that protects government employees from financial judgments.

He said he "felt compelled to make a change in my career" after the severely abused teen was given a life term in prison.

The teen girl says she forced into sex trafficking but a jury sentenced her to life in prison after killing a man, who paid her for sex.

Shelby Sullivan-Bennis is an attorney for a 70-year-old man held without charge, who has suffered harsh punishments despite his poor health.

He also tried to start a fire inside a prison and sneak in a hacksaw.