A woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital was in custody today after surrendering on a probation violation charge.

Rapper Lil Wayne has been released from prison in New York after serving eight months for a gun offence.

McDonald’s Hamburglar may well go to prison after all under a plan to put a fast-food restaurant in New York City’s Rikers Island jail system.

A prison officer in the US is to be punished for showing the gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain to inmates.

Convicted killer Kenneth Lee Boyd was executed early today, becoming the 1000th prisoner put to death since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

A man who offered a lift in his car to a man he had been drinking with, and then shot him and dumped his body in a river was executed by injection today.