A former correction officer at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester will now see the other side of a prison cell ...

An upstate prison was still locked down Thursday after guards retook control of three dorms following an inmate uprising ...

I was relieved because I was like ‘ok he’s in jail now, he’s going to be ok, he’s safe.’ But I guess I was wrong,” Thelma said. “ The jail did not protect him. He was not safe in jail.” ...

A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates took over and injured three guards, just days after staffing ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

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.

Two inmates at the county jail at 201 Poplar have died in the past two days, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said. The ...

According to one mother who spoke with her son who is in the jail, inmates screamed out: "We're going to die back here. There ...

Another inmate at the Shelby County Jail, oftentimes referred to as 201 Poplar, died at the hospital after being found ...