An American student was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison with hard labor in North Korea after he admitted stealing a sign in a modern day tale of "Midnight Express."
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has released the names of the two correctional officers and eight prisoners who were killed when a prison bus crashed near Odessa Wednesday morning.
Up until now, if an inmate in a Texas prison wanted to get married, someone else had to stand in for the prisoner during a ceremony held somewhere outside the prison. That's about to change.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Record numbers of murderers and other California inmates serving life sentences, with the possibility of parole, are leaving prison.