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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI — Amid U.S. immigration officials’ efforts to send a young man thousands of miles away, he and his fiancee are trying to tie the knot. An Ohio sheriff is blocking it. Morrow County Sheriff ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The second episode of "Love During Lockup," a show featuring South Dakota inmate Chris Chipps, and his wife, Jade, fortunately did ...

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 ...