LEXINGTON -- Inmates trudge across the prison yard bordered with bristling razor wire, stopping occasionally to press their faces against the tinted windows of the chapel. Inside, a group of convicted ...

In the harsh world of concrete walls and iron bars, an unexpected bloom of hope persists: the right to marry. Across the United States, many states recognize that incarceration does not extinguish the ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A measure making it easier for inmates to get married is moving through the Missouri Legislature. The legislation would create an inmate exception to a Missouri law that ...

A panel of federal appeals court judges on Tuesday issued an opinion that will allow a former inmate and his fiancee to sue The GEO Group, which operates the Moshannon Valley Correctional Center, for ...

George Hyatte — the Tennessee felon who escaped Tuesday in what authorities described as a "Bonnie-and-Clyde-style shootout" outside a Tennessee courthouse — has used everything from his fists to a ...

A registrar in Burlington County properly denied a marriage license to a federal prison inmate because he and his husband-to-be are unable to appear in person to apply, a New Jersey appeals court ...

CONWAY, S.C. (WIS) - A West Columbia woman was charged on Wednesday with forging an inmate’s signature on her marriage license. According to an affidavit from the South Carolina Law Enforcement ...

COLUMBIA — A former criminal investigator at the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice is accused of faking a prison inmate's signature on her marriage license, and even holding a wedding ...

Several women in Iowa have reported difficulties getting married to their incarcerated fiancés, raising questions about whether Iowa prisons are upholding inmates' constitutional right to marry.