A former prison nurse from Miller County entered an Alford plea Wednesday to charges including murder in the 2018 poisoning death of her husband.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A proposed new men’s prison in Nebraska drew a $313 million bid from Hausmann Construction of Lincoln, Nebraska, the state Department of Corrections said. The… ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while he was incarcerated.

A coordinated series of strikes caused significant damage across Tehran, with video footage capturing the dramatic impact at Evin Prison's entrance gate.

Inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison have declared a hunger strike, effective Friday, to protest what they claim are unlawful practices by the California Department of Corrections and ...

R. Kelly's attorneys file an emergency motion seeking home detention, alleging that prison officials are scheming with racist inmates to have the singer killed.

Rapper Silentó (born Ricky Lamar Hawk) has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2021 killing of his cousin, 34-year-old Frederick Rooks III.

R. Kelly, serving a 30-year prison sentence, is seeking to be released from prison, claiming jail officials attempted to have him killed.

High Desert State Prison and Lassen County officials are investigating the death of Joseph Reagan as a potential homicide at the Susanville facility.

Ricky Lamar Hawk—the rapper who rose to fame as Silentó with 2015's "Watch Me (Whip/ Nae Nae)"—was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2021 fatal shooting of his cousin Frederick Rooks.

R. Kelly's lawyers say prison officials ordered a hit on him and are now pushing for his release for safety reasons.

An attorney for R. Kelly tells PEOPLE his client is in danger and keeping him in prison is "cruel and unusual punishment" in the wake of these allegations ...