Jose Estevez-Luciano said he understood that he violated the oath he took when he became a corrections officer and was sorry ...

The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside Feb. 11.

Slick Willie” Sutton climbed over the castle-like walls of the old Holmesburg prison, marking his first successful escape ...

FORT WORTH, TX – NPR News is reporting President Trump’s new Bureau of Prisons policy has been put on hold by the courts – ...

A man in the Indian River County Jail was beat up for a total of two minutes because he owed another inmate some butter.

An inmate at the Henry County Adult Detention Center has filed suit against the jail, Sheriff Wayne Davis, and three deputies for being kept isolated in solitary confinement for nearly 16 months.

An incident at the Collins Correctional Facility led to a lockdown Wednesday for the facility’s staff and incarcerated individuals. Following a statement earlier Wednesday, at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday ...

A TN death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, food quality and ...

Minneapolis defense attorney Sarah Gad denied smuggling drugs into Hennepin County Jail after authorities found drug residue ...

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

The ninth former Walker County jail employee who agreed to plead guilty in connection to the death of Tony Mitchell made his ...

Richard Lee Tabler, 46, was given a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He is the second person ...