A few years ago, I reported the story of a Georgia man named Arthur Lee Cofield, Jr., who stole more money while behind ...

The man known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" was sentenced to 13 more years behind bars after pleading guilty on Tuesday to escaping from an Arkansas prison last year while serving an 80-year sentence ...

In 2002, Sarah Jo Pender was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to 110 years in prison. Little did prosecutors, or the public, know the most shocking part of her story was ...

Dijon, France — France on Friday caught one of two detainees who used bed sheets to escape from prison a day earlier after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said. France has some of ...

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Eastern State Penitentiary couldn't contain everyone in its stone walls. While the historic site was an active prison, about 100 people inside it escaped over ladders, through the gatehouse window and ...

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BRIDGEPORT — A woman pleaded guilty Friday to escaping from a federal prison in Danbury while serving a more than eight-year sentence for setting fire to a church in Alabama, federal prosecutors said.