Mamdani entrusted Stanley Richards, who was formerly incarcerated and executive vice president at The Fortune Society, with ...

A state judge on Friday overturned the double murder conviction of a Queens man who has been in prison for more than three decades, ruling prosecutors improperly withheld key evidence from his 1995 ...

Richard Kuklinski was a New Jersey man who came to national attention in the 1980s after authorities linked him to multiple killings connected to organized crime. Investigators described him as living ...

Three inmates are dead and 13 are injured following a fight at Washington State Prison in Davisboro. Local deputies and state troopers assisted the GDC in regaining control of the facility and ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Washington County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday that there was a "possible riot" at the Washington State Prison. Sheriff Joel Cochran said just before 5 p.m. that two ...

Richard Codey, the former governor of New Jersey and the state's longest-serving lawmaker, died early Sunday morning, his family announced. Codey died peacefully at his home after a brief illness. He ...

After Gov. James E. McGreevey’s resignation in November 2004, Codey served as New Jersey’s governor from November 2004 to January 2006. "I've fought for who and what I believe in, even when it wasn’t ...

The longest-serving state legislator in New Jersey history, Richard J. Codey became the state’s chief executive quite by chance. In 2004, Gov. James E. McGreevey abruptly resigned after disclosing an ...

The prison has outlasted the war in Afghanistan, has employed tens of thousands of temporary troops and holds six men charged but not yet tried in death penalty cases. The first image of detainees at ...

Fetty Wap has been released from prison early after spending the past three years behind bars. The 34-year-old "Trap Queen" rapper is no longer in custody, having been transferred to community ...

As Venezuela’s interim authorities began to release political prisoners, some of their families raced to the notorious prison that symbolized Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian rule. By Patricia Sulbarán ...