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Mack is best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville.”

An inmate who was transferred to one of the most secure federal prison facilities in the U.S. was stabbed to death within hours of arriving, raising fresh questions about the government’s ability to keep prisoners safe amid severe understaffing and a myriad of crises plaguing the federal prison system. Stephen Dwayne Cannada was killed in an altercation with a...

Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S., and nearly half still have not been caught

After Prince Philip’s death last week at age 99, politicians and world leaders rushed to eulogize his lifetime of service to his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, and to the British nation

Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died early Wednesday in a federal prison

A Zion man was sentenced by a federal judge Friday to 13 and a half years in prison for taking part in a conspiracy to support the Islamic State.

About 1,000 Illinois inmates scheduled for release in the next nine months could soon be set free as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit filed last spring amid a growing COVID-19 health crisis in state lockups, a lawyer involved in the case said Tuesday. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has more.

Illinois has agreed to the early release of some low- to medium-risk inmates as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit over the coronavirus

Prison guards are refusing coronavirus vaccines at alarming rates

Street artist Banksy has confirmed that he was behind an artwork that appeared on the red brick wall of a former prison in the English town of Reading.

Ex-NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II, who committed sexual offenses against five women in Northern San Diego County, is slated to be sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in state prison.

In prisons around the country, COVID-19 outbreaks have followed transfers of prisoners or prison workers.

“Full House” star Lori Loughlin has reported to a California federal prison to serve her two-month sentence for her part in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scam, an official at the facility told NBC News. Loughlin and and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were required to begin serving their prison sentences by Nov. 19. They admitted to paying…

WNBA star Maya Moore revealed Wednesday that she tied the knot with Jonathan Irons — a man she helped free from prison this year after a judge overturned his conviction.

More than 1,000 tainted cases were tallied in a new nationwide study by the registry that measures the role of government misconduct in wrongful convictions — and how that misconduct falls heaviest on Black exonerees. The study, published Tuesday, examined 2,400 cases from 1989 through February 2019 in which people were absolved of criminal convictions, and it found that 54...

A 77-year-old prison escapee who had been on the run for nearly half a century was captured this week at his home in New Mexico, the FBI said.

Tents were set up in the yard of San Quentin State Prison to treat inmates with COVID-19. At least 1,011 cases of the virus have been reported.

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and ‘fixer’ for President Donald Trump, was released two years early from prison over coronavirus concerns. He will serve the remainder of his three-year sentence at home.

The response from the federal Bureau of Prisons to the growing coronavirus crisis in prisons has raised alarm among advocates and lawmakers about whether the agency is doing enough to ensure the safety of the nearly 150,000 inmates serving time in federal facilities.

Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.