A man whose DNA connected him to a Henderson cold case murder may never serve any time behind bars as part of a plea ...

Charles Morris will receive nearly $1 million to settle multiple lawsuits against the Nevada Department of Corrections ...

The Montana State prison in Deer Lodge, houses over 1,600 inmates. NBC Montana got an inside look at the facility — and what’s being done to address overcrowding, and to find out how the ...

Inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison have declared a hunger strike, effective Friday, to protest what they claim are unlawful practices by the California Department of Corrections and ...

An inmate at Georgia's Hancock State Prison has died after officials say he was stabbed multiple times with a homemade weapon in the prison yard.

Explore hazardous drinking water at Mule Creek State Prison, environmental injustice and reporting by an incarcerated journalist in California.

The A.G.'s office said Officer Christopher Santana took bribes to smuggle tobacco and other contraband into Northern State Prison in Newark.

State Police said they found a photographer trapped inside a cell at a defunct state prison in Fishkill early Saturday morning.

At a Georgia prison notorious for drug smuggling, 23 cases in four years were dismissed because the suspected drugs never made it to the state crime lab ...

Marcy, N.Y. — State prison officials have replaced the superintendent at a Central New York prison where guards fatally beat an inmate earlier this year. Thomas Delmar started May 12 as the new ...

On Monday, the corrections department said two Lincoln-based construction firms and one Papillion company submitted bids to build the facility to replace the Nebraska State Penitentiary.