A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant ...

The Fayette County Jail says headphone wires and an envelope were used in an attempt to get drugs to inmates, but a sharp ...

A sixth inmate has died at a troubled maximum security prison in southern Wisconsin. The state Department of Corrections ...

Newly released security video shows Rigoberto Badillo wandering alone after his midnight release from Kaufman County Jail in ...

The son of prominent Hong Kong former publisher Jimmy Lai, who is facing possible life imprisonment in the Chinese city, has ...

The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three ...

Former South Dakota Governor and Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday said her agency has identified two alleged ...

A slew of recent violence in state prisons is bringing new rules to inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison, according to the ...

Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The ...

Akeyba Sanchez tried to explain away the crime he’d committed by saying it had been a bad day. “I’m sorry this happened,” he ...

Attorney General Aaron Ford announced 20 people are facing charges, including first-degree murder, after three inmates were killed in the prison fight.