Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday appointed Jorge Messias to the country’s Supreme Court. Messias, currently Brazil’s Solicitor General, is Lula’s third ...

A riot involving about 20 incarcerated people erupted Monday morning at California State Prison, Sacramento - better known as ...

A riot involving roughly 20 inmates in Folsom broke out Monday morning at California State Prison, Sacramento, resulting in ...

A Canadian man serving a 40-year federal sentence for plotting a terrorist attack in New York City has pleaded guilty to violently assaulting two correctional officers inside a Pennsylvania prison, ...

Just over a week after the accidental release of an asylum-seeking sex offender caused an uproar, questions are mounting over ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the U.S., has died. Banks, 83, died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison in Pennsylvania, the state Department of ...

One of the most notorious mass murderers in Pennsylvania and across the U.S. has died in prison in Montgomery County. George Banks died at State Correctional Institution - Phoenix on Sunday at the age ...

A Pennsylvania inmate who had been convicted on child rape charges died in his prison cell over the weekend. According to a press release from John Sawtelle, superintendent of the State Correctional ...

Subramanyam ‘Subu’ Vedam walks outside the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte Feb. 6 during a hearing over new evidence uncovered in his 1983 murder case. Tejaswini Rao chats with party guests ...

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Convicted murderer Brian Giles appeared in Cambria County court on Friday as his second homicide case moves forward. Giles has already been convicted in the death of his ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- After waiting more than four decades to clear his name in a friend's 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free from a Pennsylvania prison this month. A judge in August ...

The Supreme Court on Friday limited a federal obstruction law that has been used to charge hundreds of Capitol riot defendants as well as former President Donald Trump.