YESPhilly Accelerated High School serves many students who’ve grown up around poverty and crime. Dean Art Green tries to keep them safe and show them a brighter future.

The former head of Syria's largest civil prison was found guilty of ordering the torture of inmates who refused his orders to harm political prisoners of the Assad regime.

New video, exclusively obtained by NBC6, captured the moment when a Miami-Dade corrections officer allegedly beat up an ...

Soham killer Ian Huntley died after a prison attack ...

The fatal attack on Ian Huntley may have emboldened other prisoners to launch their own attacks on inmates.

The lawsuit alleges that jail staff and a private medical contractor failed to provide urgent medical care, which led to ...

An inmate was killed at an understaffed Oklahoma prison on the same day officials gave a tour to a DA who called the facility a "gladiator academy." ...

Raven Johnson - who is using a pseudonym - was incarcerated on drug charges at Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee ...

Cedric Ricks is set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old Anthony.

Despite a defamation lawsuit filed Monday in Fulton County Superior Court against his campaign, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is moving ahead with ads attempting to link his top GOP gubernatorial opponent to ...

An Orange County judge has denied Tommy Zeigler a new trial, ruling new DNA evidence doesn’t prove the 80-year-old is innocent in a 1975 quadruple murder.

Harvey Weinstein says prison life has been brutal so far -- claiming he’s already taken a beating behind bars ... including one attack that left him bloodied on the floor. In his first official ...