A man has been charged with child endangerment after police say he used a 2-year-old as a "pawn" during his arrest, according ...

Jayden Little, who was 17 when he escaped from a Lincoln youth detention center but since has turned 18, was sentenced to 15½ to 25½ years in prison.

Norristown is home to the castle-like Montgomery County Prison. Pamela W. Reilly reflects on the historic structure in Pennsylvania Heritage. The prison ...

A Lancaster city man charged with raping an unconscious woman just before she died will have his case heard in Lancaster ...

A man accused of raping an unconscious woman “as she died” will have his case proceed to county court, the Lancaster County ...

In his first weeks as Lancaster County Courts’ president judge, Leonard G. Brown III has had to give some thought to a seldom ...

The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office said a traffic stop on the interstate led to over $840,000 worth of prescription drugs.

Dwight Cole was sentenced to up to 20 years for statutory sexual assault in Bradford County, after being sentenced to 60-plus ...

A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a ...

As Oklahoma County commissioners broke ground on a behavioral health facility for the new jail, questions remain on how to fund the jail itself and where the money will come from.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officialsare investigating the alleged attempted homicide of a peace officer at Pelic ...

The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The Alabama Solution.' ...