A U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of a private prison company that plans to use its troubled Leavenworth facility ...

More than 1,200 visitors have toured Kansas State Penitentiary since tours restarted in March, Tom Young recently told Lansing City Council members.Young is a member of the Lansing Historical ...

People acquitted of crime are entitled to as much as $65,000 per year of time served on charges they're later found not ...

An inmate at the Leavenworth County Jail was sentenced to more than a decade in prison Wednesday for attacking an officer.

Kansas' parole board has reversed its decision to release a man convicted of a state Highway Patrol trooper' 1978 murder ...

Visitors touring the former Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, can now see a replica of the gallows that were used ...

Gallows built to exactly replicate the original are now part of what visitors can see at the former Kansas State Penitentiary ...