Tennessee prison system head to resign after failed Christa Pike execution
Christa Pike remains alive but unconscious and intubated after her failed execution on Wednesday, her lawyers said.
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Christa Pike remains alive but unconscious and intubated after her failed execution on Wednesday, her lawyers said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
A judge has ordered that actor Timothy Busfield be released from jail during a detention hearing on child sex abuse charges.
Former NBA star Lamar Odom has been arrested on suspicion of DUI in Las Vegas.
The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling concrete that threatens to knock out the facility's heating system.
A New York federal indictment has charged the longtime head of a Mexican megachurch with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been deported to Mexico following his arrest in the U.S. for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application.
The former Japanese interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has surrendered to a federal prison in Pennsylvania.
Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and George "Machine-Gun" Kelly.
Stanford University says the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" has died.
A judge invoked sentencing enhancements to add eight years to the minimum 20-year sentence that a jury set in August after finding Robert Telles guilty of murder.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate Friday at a federal prison in Arizona.
The leader of a Mexican megachurch who is serving more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young followers has been charged with two federal crimes involving a 16-year-old girl.
Gerardo Cabanillas was just 18 when he was wrongfully convicted of rape, robbery and kidnapping in 1995, and after spending nearly 30 years in prison he was finally exonerated due to a DNA test that showed he never committed the crime.
Prison escapes have made headlines in recent weeks, but how common are they? CBS News dug into the data to find out.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is planning to spend $360 million demolishing a sprawling former furniture factory at San Quentin State Prison and replacing it with something reminiscent of a college campus.
Prosecutors said Pascale Ferrier made the ricin at home in Quebec in 2020 and mailed it to Trump with a letter that referred to him as "The Ugly Tyrant Clown."
Survivors of sexual abuse by employees at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin assert that enough hasn't been done to stop the abuse.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has stepped in to help revive a bill that would increase penalties for child trafficking.
Mack pleaded guilty to charges that she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for NXIVM leader Keith Raniere.
Authorities and his lawyer say rapper MoneySign Suede has died after being stabbed in a shower at a California prison.
Syed, who was the subject of the "Serial" podcast, began taking Georgetown classes in prison. "For the first time in 23 years, we didn't feel like we were in prison. We felt like we were college students learning," he said.
Saifullah Paracha was reunited with his family after more than 17 years in custody in the U.S. base in Cuba, Pakistan's foreign ministry said.
Arturo Ceja III was sentenced to five months in prison and two years probation. Jake Reiner reports.
Federal prosecutors said the use of jailhouse snitches violated inmates' Sixth and 14th Amendment rights to legal representation and due process of law.
