And in one extraordinary lapse in security, the prison was crumbling to the extent that one prisoner had been able to “remove ...

This afternoon Governor Henry McMaster signed into law a plan that makes it a felony for an inmate to have a cell phone ...

Drug use was 'rife' but the prison's approach to testing was 'weak' - and a third of CCTV cameras were broken.

A nurse who worked at an Alabama jail is the sixth person to agree to plead guilty in connection with the death of a 33-year-old mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held naked in a ...

The bill creates a new criminal offense for unlawful possession of a telecommunications device by an inmate of the South ...

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the ...

A prison is so "dilapidated" an inmate was able to remove his own cell door, an inspection has found. A watchdog has called ...

Negasi Zuberi, 30, has gone by aliases Justin Kouassi, Justin Joshua Hyche and Sakima Zuberi, according to authorities.

Advocates say Reneyda’s death appears to have been an entirely avoidable tragedy, one that exposes a confluence of failures.

A Muslim protest leader has become a symbol of a wide-ranging clampdown on opponents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Cell phones in prison have been against the rules but now they are against the law. On Tuesday ...

An Oregon man was convicted Friday for the 2023 kidnapping of a sex worker in Seattle and transporting her 450 miles to a ...