ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The son of an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards said in a federal ...

A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

Millions of Southern Californians are nervously keeping watch as winds begin picking up during a final round of dangerous ...

South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith told an unknown male caller that she "wouldn't talk" to the media weeks before she was ...

Deaths in Missouri prisons have increased in number despite a drop in the number of people incarcerated. The Missouri ...

Inmate firefighters responding to the ongoing Los Angeles fires and working 24-hour shifts are earning $26.90 per day, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Amid a slew of controversies, the director of Hawaii’s Department of Law Enforcement is stepping ...

California DA warns judge, to no avail, it's "absolutely disrespectful to and traumatic to the victims" by forcing them to ...

An inmate’s parents and a former corrections officer have been charged in connection to a large-scale drug operation at ...

A Minot man who pleaded guilty to one Class C felony burglary was sentenced to serve 18 months with the Department of ...

Death row inmate Byron James Shepard died Tuesday, almost eight years after he fatally shot a Tecumseh police officer during a traffic stop. Shepard, 43, was at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in ...