On October 29th, 20 convicted criminals will be released early from NC prisons. All 20 of these prisoners received a life sentence for committing violent crimes such as rape and murder.

A Texas prison inmate pulled a Houdini and escaped on Saturday night by rappelling down a prison medical facility building with a string of bedsheets tied together. Seriously! The crack security officers at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice medical facility in Galveston, Texas, left prison inmate Joshua Duane Barnes alone in his room just long enough to allow him to string together enough bedsheets to rappel down from the seventh floor and escape.

Michigan prison officials should know within a month whether California will send inmates to the Muskegon Correctional Facility, keeping it from closing. The medium security prison was recently visited by California officials, who proclaimed great interest in the site.

If you are a short, gay and/or female inmate, you are at greater risk for being sexually abused in prison. This according to a new report issued by federal commission on prison rape.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save the state $180 million by cutting short the prison sentences of undocumented immigrant inmates and handing them over to federal authorities for purposes of deportation.

The United States Supreme Court refused to find a constitutional right of access to DNA evidence by convicted prisoners closing the door on a convicted rapist trying to prove his innocence with new DNA testing.

Individuals who engage in costly punishment do not benefit from their behavior, according to a new study published this week in the journal Nature by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School of Economics.

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service have saved up to 160 million dollars by releasing prisoners from jail with electronic tags.

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.

As California struggles to extinguish some of the state's most devastating forest fires, it has turned to a record number of prisoners for some of the most demanding work.

An auditor who stole $1.2 million from the state over nine years was sentenced Monday to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison, The Associated Press reported.

President Bush Monday spared former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby from going to prison for 2 1/2 years for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, a White House official said, according to Reuters.