After waiting more than four decades to clear his name in a friend’s 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free from a Pennsylvania prison this month. A judge in August threw out a murder conviction against Vedam in the death of Thomas Kinser,

Prison officers have warned that overcrowding and understaffing have pushed Scotland's jails to "crisis point." The prison population hit an all-time high of 8,430 last week, beating the previous record set in 2012.

The incarcerated man who died after a "medical emergency" in a Massachusetts prison early Tuesday morning has been identified.

An Ohio judge has sentenced a Cleveland woman to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally stabbing a 3-year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside a supermarket in North Olmst

Russian mobsters Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov had been convicted back in March in Manhattan of plotting to kill Masih Alinejad.

A persistent noise complaint turned into a beat-down and eventual shootout at an apartment building in Swatara Township.

Krenwinkel is one of three people who were convicted of the seven murders in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles on two consecutive nights in August 1969. The others were Charles Manson and Charles “Tex” Watson. Susan Atkins was convicted of the five murders on Aug. 8, and Leslie Van Houten of the two on Aug. 9.

Joseph Eaton, 36, was being held at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster and died at a local hospital, officials said.

David Brian Pearce, 43, has been behind bars since he was arrested in December 2021, after the two friends had spent their last hours together one month earlier in his Beverly Hills apartment.