They say history repeats itself, and if that's the case, Black Americans can learn a lot from how our ancestors dealt with ...

California has transferred hundreds of condemned men from San Quentin’s death row to other prisons as part of a plan to transform the facility into a model for rehabilitation. Nearly one-third of ...

JOLIET, Ill. - For the first time, the Joliet Slammers played within the walls of the Old Joliet Prison. The iconic "Big House Baseball" game helped kick off Route 66 Centennial celebrations. What we ...

Police have captured a prisoner who escaped custody on Tuesday morning. Investigators say the suspect was injured in a shooting and escaped while being transferred from Penn Presbyterian Medical ...

Alexandra Simon is a digital content producer at CBS Philadelphia. Alex started her career at CBS21 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania before joining KARE 11 News in Minneapolis, where she covered breaking ...

KYIV/MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - Ukraine and Russia conducted a prisoner of war swap on Friday, sending ‌back 193 captured personnel each in an exchange both sides said was facilitated by the United ...

What would have been a dream trip to Bali has turned into a nightmare for one Ohio woman and her family. Tye Kionne and her mother, Abathia, traveled to Bali, Indonesia, for Abathia’s 50th birthday ...

SAN SALVADOR, April 23 (Reuters) - From inside a Salvadoran mega prison, more than one hundred alleged gang members sit in rows, wrists cuffed and ankles shackled, to watch court proceedings on a ...

A Florida man convicted of killing his cellmate with a pen smiled and laughed as a judge sentenced him to life in prison Tuesday. Marcus Terry, 43, was found guilty of second-degree murder in December ...

At a 1900 world’s fair in Paris, W.E.B. Du Bois curated exhibits using photos, charts, and census data to showcase Black American progress since emancipation. His work directly challenged racist ...