Charles Chatman Freed After DNA Tests Showed He Had Been Serving 26 Years for a Sexual Assault Chatman Never Committed.

More than three hundred prisoners, mostly naxalites, escaped from Dantewara district jail in India today after prison guards were overpowered in a planned action in which three guards and two undertrials were injured during firing and clashes.

Researchers at UCLA have developed a mathematical model that mimics a particularly nasty and ongoing outbreak in the Los Angeles County Jail (LACJ) of the flesh eating bacteria Staphylococcus Aureus.

ParisExposed.com is offering up to $1 million for photos of Paris Hilton in her prison orange jump suit.

Officials change Paris Hilton jail arrangement and let her out of jail. Paris Hilton will serve her remaining time under house arrest and will wear ankle bracelet. Surpisingly Paris Hilton is out of jail just after five days instead of 45.

New research in the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa found that the gender and ethnicity of judges, defendants and victims effect court rulings and prison terms. A Jew who is found guilty of attacking an Arab has a 14% chance of receiving a prison term if an Arab judge presides over the case.

Actor Mel Gibson avoided jail time after he was convicted of driving under the influence in California last year. Most people who take to the wheel after drinking don't think they'll wind up behind bars either - or even be caught, as the "Braveheart" and "Lethal Weapon" star was, University of Florida researchers say.