Lawmakers and local officials are urging the Colorado Joint Budget Committee (JBC) to reconsider a proposal to close the Rifle Correctional Center. In a letter sent Jan. 31, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, ...

The incident took place around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, when Virginia State Police (VSP) responded to the correctional center for the report of a “disturbance” inside a unit that houses 14 ...

SOUTH HEIDELBERG TWP., Pa. - Following years of calls for its closure, a controversial corrections center in South Heidelberg Township is shutting down operations. The Pennsylvania Department of ...

The findings - made well over three years ago - led to efforts to highlight the alleged abuse at Marcy Correctional Facility. Following the video release of the brutal beating of Robert Brooks ...

VINITA, Okla. — Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from Northeast Oklahoma Correctional Center in Vinita. On Friday, Jeremiah McKinney escaped from Northeast Correctional Center.

Brooks was hit repeatedly while numerous corrections officers and employees looked on, according to body camera videos. Robert Brooks' death at Marcy Correction Facility in December has been ruled ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - A bill at the state legislature wants to look into whether moving New Haven’s correctional center is a realistic option. The bill, if passed, would study the ...

Correctional Captain Tyler Lynn was fired from his position at the McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center (MRJDC) in Paducah effective Dec. 13, 2024. Documents state, on Oct. 12, 2024, Lynn was ...

According to MoDOC, 61-year-old Alan Mitchell died at the Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston at around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 21. Mitchell was serving a life sentence for second ...

Under a contract with Shawnee Co., Valeo Behavioral Health will provide on-site competency restoration services to the new correctional mental health facility, and at no cost to the Department of ...

(WJAR) — The Department of Corrections said Cranston fire crews were called to the High Security Center after a staff found an unidentified powdery substance on Monday. According to officials ...

The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed. By Amanda Abrams Diamon Pearson ...