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Legislators in the state of New York is considering passage of a bill to increase the age of criminal responsibility to 18.

One law enforcement official says orange is just too hip for the inmates at his jail these days.

Some are touting Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to educate state prisoners as a way to decrease rates of recidivism in the correctional system.  Others are scoffing at the idea of "Attica U."

Nobody likes going to the dentist...well, except for this guy.

WILTON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate at a state prison south of the Adirondacks has been hospitalized after a fight.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — As authorities hunt for two killers who were mistakenly freed by bogus court documents, prison officials and prosecutors across Florida scrambled to make sure no other inmates had been let out early.

A federal jury finds former New York Governor George Pataki not liable in a lawsuit filed against him by six convicted sex offenders who were confined to a mental institution after they served their time.

In a story that seems copied directly from the pages of a comic book, a French super criminal escaped from jail on Saturday by using arms and explosives to blast his way out of incarceration. Infamous criminal Redoine Faid escaped from Lille-Sequedin penitentiary northern France by holding four guards at gunpoint, before using explosives to blast through five doors separating him from the outside

A cat in Brazil is in custody after being caught trying to smuggle all sorts of contraband into the Luiz de Oliveira Souza prison.

Lenny Dykstra’s unlikely journey from all-star centerfielder to supposed financial wizard and businessman has landed the 49-year-old in jail.