Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

SOMERVILLE, N.J. – A Somerset County jury convicted Victor Ogando-Marte, 39, from Plainfield, of third-degree aggravated ...

Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...

In 2005, a maximum security prison staged the greatest play you’ve never seen. “Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code” was the brainchild of Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), a theater program ...

With a trial date yet to be set for the 54-year-old hip-hop artist, it’s unknown how long Combs will be held in the Brooklyn prison, but after Wednesday’s bail denial hearing his lawyer said ...

A Maryland man has been sentenced to 77 months in federal prison for the armed robbery of a TD Bank in Northeast Washington, ...

Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday. A provisional assessment ...

Russian inmates have taken staff hostage at a prison colony in the southern Volgograd region in the second such event since June, officials said. At least one member of the prison staff was killed ...

Prisoners tried to break out en masse from the Makala Central Prison in the capital, Kinshasa, at around 2 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET) on Monday, Interior Minister Jacquemain Shabani Lukoo Bihango ...

Brazos County has its first person infected with West Nile Virus. The health district says the person lives in the College ...

The revolt is the latest in a series of terrorist attacks in Russia claimed by Islamic militants. By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Oleg Matsnev Anatoly Kurmanaev and Oleg Matsnev reported from Berlin.