After spending a decade as a crime reporter, CNN Hero Debra Des Vignes created the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, a nonprofit writing program that helps incarcerated people work through trauma and find community.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took a tour of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay Thursday morning as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to convert Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison could cost roughly $2 billion, Axios reported on Friday citing administration sources.

Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How did we get here?

Attorney General Pam Bondi is touring former Alcatraz prison and the surrounding island, as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi visited the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay on Thursday, weeks after President Donald Trump said he would order the long-shuttered facility, now operated as a historical site,

City officials have eyed Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' links to the White House as stepping stones to address Fort Smith's consent decree quagmire.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong tightened prison rules, allowing authorities to restrict visits, including those by certain lawyers and religious personnel, on national security grounds, in the latest expansion of its stringent control.

If you hit pretty good, get up and do jumping jacks,” Enrique Rodriguez-Banuelos wrote to Travis Rister in a text, warning him the fentanyl was strong.

A night of of heavy drinking and violence has resulted in a 10-year prison sentence for a Waynesboro man. "I was so drunk, I don't even remember none of it," Jeffrey F. Massie Sr. said on July 15 in Augusta County Circuit Court.

A sign outside the main gate of the Correctional Facility in Faribault warns of security dogs, but a special litter of Labrador puppies inside the fences that are providing inmates with a different kind of personal safety.