The Arkansas Board of Corrections on Friday approved an 815-acre site for a planned prison to hold 3,000 inmates, despite ...

LITTLE ROCK -- The Arkansas Board of Corrections on Friday approved an 815-acre site for a planned prison to hold 3,000 inmates, despite objections from residents and local officials that they ...

MIDDLETON, Wis. -- A woman was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to straw purchasing a gun that was used in a murder-suicide in Middleton earlier this year.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Non-governmental organizations in Venezuela on Saturday announced the release from prison of some of the thousands of people who were detained during and after the ...

A southwest Missouri man who wanted to someday be a cop was sentenced Friday to one year in prison for assaulting an officer and several other offenses committed during the Capitol riot.

The Department of Correctional Services says Johannesburg Prison needs over a billion to refurbish and that the tender deadline was missed. The infrastructure at Johannesburg’s Sun City prison ...

Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi wants to take a nearly $3,000 pay cut so his and Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek’s salaries are the same. But city council disagreed Thursday, voting against Sohi’s ...

Together they all measure over 3,000 acres, and they would now need new roads, streetlights, underground drain and sewer network, clearing of muck, garbage and wild vegetation, besides ...