CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A county jail in the East will no longer allow in-person visitors with inmates. Effective November 1st, the Carteret County jail will transition to video-only visits.

SACRAMENTO, CA- In a civil rights win, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) has successfully advocated for a major policy change within the California Department of Corrections ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week. “We are creating an environment of failure, so people are prone to ...

Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson allegedly brought her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, to visit Jeffrey Epstein after he was released from jail in 2009, according to a report, citing ...

José Daniel Ferrer said long periods in solitary confinement left him feeling buried alive. Secretary of State Marco Rubio welcomed his arrival in Miami. By David C. Adams Reporting from Florida One ...

Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in jail for criminal conspiracy last month, for his role in a scheme to finance his 2007 presidential campaign with funds from Libya in exchange for diplomatic ...

Nicolas Sarkozy entered the Elysee Palace in 2007 boasting hyperactive energy and a vision to transform France, but lost office after just one term. He entered prison on Tuesday after a judge ...

Across the country, states are taking back prisons once run by private companies. Oklahoma just bought the Lawton facility for $312 million, ending its last private prison contract. New Mexico is ...

COOK COUNTY, Illinois (WBBM) -- Tails of Redemption is a program from the Cook County Sheriff's Office, pairing up inmates at the Cook County Jail with shelter dogs for their mutual benefit. Now ...

CHAPARRAL, New Mexico (KVIA) -- A group of Buddhist monks from Nepal visited inmates at the Otero County Prison Facility recently. The prison says that this was the monks' first ever visit to a U.S.

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Corrections has opened a weeklong visitation in all prisons and penal farms under BuCor as part of the observance of National Correctional Consciousness Week. BuCor ...

PARIS — For five long years, Belarusian opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky was held in total isolation. When he was abruptly freed this June in a “miracle” prisoner release made possible by ...