A state prison volunteer chaplain and an Alabama Department of Corrections employee were arrested this week in separate ...

Even as dozens of political prisoners have been freed, at least 66 people taken by state authorities and never heard from ...

GUATEMALA CITY -- Several dozen Guatemalan prison guards were being held hostage by inmates in three prisons Saturday following apparently coordinated disturbances, authorities said. Interior Minister ...

Utica, N.Y. ― A former prison guard from Mid-State Correctional Facility has been sentenced for planting evidence after the ...

Assaults on correctional officers in New Jersey’s state prisons are not an aberration, but part of a trend both officials and ...

For seven minutes — seven gut-churning, nauseating, disgusting minutes — he stood in that room close enough to touch him, and ...

A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene in the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to reckless ...

“The Alabama Solution,” a critically acclaimed documentary about Alabama’s prison system, earned an Academy Award nomination ...

At least five inmates were injured Monday night in stabbing attacks at Hancock State Prison near Sparta, local and state ...

An investigation is underway into the death of an inmate at the York County Prison. The Pennsylvania State Police stated in a ...

Yes, Unlocked: A Jail Experiment documents real events. Both seasons of Unlocked: A Jail Experiment revolve around ...

Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...