SAN MARCOS, Texas (Gray News) - A teacher was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of sexually abusing children for decades. Andrew Palmore, 53, was found guilty of continuous sexual ...

Prosecutors urged a New York federal judge Tuesday to send Sean "Diddy" Combs to prison for over 11 years following his conviction on prostitution-related charges, citing one of his accusers who said ...

A violent clash between rival gangs at a prison in the coastal city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, has left at least 17 dead, according to a statement from the National Police. “The situation stems from an ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the 62-year-old British socialite convicted of trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, was moved to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security facility in Texas, earlier ...

The move follows Maxwell's two-day meeting with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. The Bureau of Prisons has moved former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell from a federal prison in Florida to a federal ...

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there. The Center for Terrorism Confinement, ...

A tentative agreement meant to end the strikes among New York prison workers has failed to do so in most cases, with staff at 32 prisons still refusing to come to work, the state said Monday. Now, the ...

FORT PIERCE — A Georgia prison inmate behind bars for rape was ordered to serve nearly 20 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to engaging in online child solicitation, according to the U.S ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has spent 20 years as a reporter for PEOPLE. She covers human interest, health, crime and politics for PEOPLE. Getty Susan Smith, the South ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...