Leaving prison after almost 20 years felt like waking from a nightmare. I had been sentenced to life for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. My two brothers were locked away too, and while we ...

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On this day (January 1) in 1958, Johnny Cash played a free concert behind the walls of San Quentin Prison in California. It would be the first of many concerts Cash played for groups of incarcerated ...

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closed in 1963 and operates as a museum. President Donald Trump on Sunday that he doesn't know if he is supposed to uphold the Constitution and relies on his lawyers to ...

More than two decades after Laci Peterson vanished from her Modesto, California, home, the murder case that captivated the nation continues to draw legal challenges, public debate and renewed ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — One of the three escaped DeKalb County Jail inmates who were discovered missing Monday morning has an extensive and violent record of attacks on gay men in particular, including a ...