The first public dissection of Robby Talbot’s death came Friday in a hearing on whether to accept a $3.75M settlement of a ...

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

Warden Byran Patterson of the Pine Prairie ICE processing facility contacted the sheriff's office, notifying them a ...

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

The Collins Correctional Facility remains on lockdown as of Wednesday evening after an incident earlier in the day.

"The staffing issue in the Department of Corrections is the number one issue in the state of New York of any agency we have," said NYS Sen. Robert Rolison (R-39th District), while questioning NYDOCCS ...

A former Hamilton County corrections officer will spend 9 months in prison after he was convicted of sexual battery against a female inmate.

Quincy Scott's sentence was handed down during a Thursday afternoon hearing. He was convicted of ordering an inmate to perform sex acts at the jail.

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...