A twice-convicted con man who sought, and was twice-denied, compassionate early release from his federal prison sentence is ...

For the first time in decades, Wisconsin prisoners will be able to apply to have their sentences commuted, Gov. Tony Evers announced last week. Wisconsin Watch talked to three experts about how ...

In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton blasted the federal prison agency for a pattern of medical ...

Despite the court’s denial of a legal sentence reduction, the Bureau of Prisons approved the administrative transfer to ...

Black supremacist Dwight “Malachi” York, who founded the Egyptian-themed UFO-obsessed Nuwaubian Nation back in 1967, is ...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been hoping to get released from prison early since before he set foot inside FCI Fort Dix. He’s spent several holidays and a couple of birthdays behind bars at this point. The ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

COLUMBIA — Former conservative South Carolina state Rep. RJ May has been relocated to a federal prison in Pennsylvania to serve a 17.5 year sentence following his guilty plea tied to distributing ...

NEW YORK — The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia's Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed him early release from federal prison, even though he was ...

Nicole Sganga is CBS News' homeland security and justice correspondent. She is based in Washington, D.C., and reports for all shows and platforms. Senior Coordinating Producer, Crime and Public Safety ...

Former NBA star Glen “Big Baby” Davis has broken his silence over securing an early prison release after serving 17 months behind bars for fraud. “They tried to hold me down,” Davis, 40, said in a ...