Ian Roberts, the former superintendent of Iowa's largest school district, has been sentenced to 2 years in federal prison for falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen and illegally possessing firearms.

The 2026 International Corrections and Prisons Association conference revealed Australia’s recidivism rates as the highest in the world on the global stage. SYDNEY ...

Pheap Rom thought he was being transferred to another detention center when he saw “Eswatini” on his paperwork last fall. Instead, the 43-year-old Cambodian refugee was put on a plane to the small ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On April 21, 1930, Easter Monday, a fire tore through the Ohio State Penitentiary, killing 322 inmates and injuring about 130 others. Investigators later determined the blaze was ...

Juan Bautista Franco belonged to an international crew of drug traffickers that, sometime in 2018, was found on a boat racing toward the U.S. shoreline with approximately 800 kilograms of cocaine.

Tenants said one of the city’s most notorious landlords let rats run free and left them cold during the winter. Now, charged with harassment, he’s facing up to four years in prison. By Hurubie Meko ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Department of Homeland Security's "Worst of the Worst" website features people arrested in Minnesota who the department says have been convicted of serious crimes. There are 15 ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — The leader of the Minnesota Department of Corrections continues to correct the record about ICE Operation Metro Surge. President Trump's Border Czar, Tom Homan, arrived in Minnesota ...

Surviving for 25 years as an independent game developer is no mean feat. In the UK, only a handful of studios have lasted for longer without being bought out or shut down. But paradoxically, success ...

This story contains descriptions of self-harm. The New Jersey Department of Corrections tracks violence against its own staff the way other agencies track potholes or snow days: with annual targets.

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man, who was arrested in what IMPD called "one of the worst cases of child pornography," was sentenced to decades in prison Friday. Andre Brewer, 34, was sentenced to ...