Organized crime groups are using drones to smuggle drugs, weapons, and cellphones into prisons nationwide at an unprecedented rate, officials tell ABC News.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We have reported on at least five prison escapes since May; four in our area, including the recent escape and capture of Danelo Cavalcante. Now, a group of Republican state ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time ...

Over two decades, a minimum-security prison aimed at helping inmates prepare to leave prison was a point of civic pride. Now, state officials have converted it to ICE detention.

No criminal charges will be filed against the corrections officer suspected of recording and releasing prison security footage of Bryan Kohberger, the man serving life in prison for killing four ...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s new prison pals are “disgusted” that the notorious sex trafficker was quietly transferred to a cushy prison camp known as “Club Fed” last week. The convicted child sex pest was ...

CLAYTON, Ala. (WSFA) - A security guard who works at an Alabama prison is facing multiple charges after an Alabama Department of Corrections K-9 officer discovered an attempt to bring contraband ...

Ameenah Qumber is a regular visitor to Israeli prisons, where she checks in on detainees serving time for terror-related offenses, the vast majority of whom are Palestinian security prisoners arrested ...

Idaho’s only maximum security prison could soon be home to Bryan Kohberger, the man who admitted to the 2022 gruesome killings of four University of Idaho students in a remarkable change-of-plea ...

A seventh inmate has died at a troubled maximum security prison in southern Wisconsin. The state Department of Corrections offender website notes that 23-year-old Damien Evans died Tuesday at Waupun ...