Hoping to save the former penitentiary from demolition, the Lansing Historical Society recently reached an agreement with the Kansas Department of Corrections to open the former prison for tours ...

The shuttered Kansas prison where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” were executed is now a tourist ...

David Reeve, who passed the notorious Youth Training School in Chino on his work commute, is now coordinating with the state ...

Derrick Earvin, 24, was sentenced by Judge Anthony Donofrio on three counts of illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in ...

Brian Jeffrey Raymond sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment for one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the CIA's ...

The historic Kansas State Penitentiary — once home to dangerous criminals and known for some high-profile executions — will ...

paving the way for the historic prison to be opened for tours. Visitors will have plenty to see in the buildings that have mostly been left in the condition they were in when the prison shut down.

The City of Indianapolis will take control of the site of Indianas first womens prison which has sat abandoned for years.

paving the way for the historic prison to be opened for tours. Visitors will have plenty to see in the buildings that have ...

The men convicted for the murders documented in Truman Capote’s classic crime novel “In Cold Blood” were executed in this ...