On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate a homecoming. “It’s a return of an ancestor,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PIERRE — As a farmer, Marty Overweg would hate to see perfectly good farmland wasted on building a prison. That's one of his ...

A little more than two years ago, in December 2023, a consulting firm hired by Lancaster County’s commissioners to help plan the construction of a new prison estimated building the facility on a ...

Many of the cells at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility are much smaller than the recommended prison standards. Most of the facility also lacks air conditioning. A crumbling correctional facility in ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana, sparking an outcry among residents ...

In an epic case of, “Tag, you’re it!,” the French government is building a “high-security prison” in the middle of the Amazon jungle in French Guiana. This prison will house the most dangerous ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County Prison Society is offering recommendations on designing a new county prison, based on the expertise of its members who have been making monthly visits for more than 25 ...

ROGERS -- One state senator who has been critical of the governor's plan to build a 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County this week spoke of pressure some lawmakers received over votes to fund the ...

France has plans to build a high-security prison in a remote area of the South American jungle for the nation's most "dangerous" criminals, including drug kingpins. Gerald Darmanin, France's justice ...

Peru, battling a wave of violent crime, said Wednesday it would build a prison for its most dangerous offenders on an island facing the capital Lima.