Russell County is working to bring padded cells to their jails to serve inmates with mental health challenges or those on drugs. The Russell County Jail will ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

"First of all, I was freaking out because I somehow went from driving into the golf course to a jail cell and I still don't really know how that happened exactly," says Scheffler in a voiceover as ...

Auburn, N.Y. — An inmate was found dead in his cell Saturday at the Auburn Correctional ... Grant, originally of Brooklyn, entered the prison system in 2011 and had been serving a sentence ...

Tony Evers’ prison reform plan is hitting a wall with Republican lawmakers whose votes he’ll need. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt is also criticizing key elements of Evers’ nearly $500 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A 41-year-old female inmate was found unresponsive in her Cuyahoga County jail cell Sunday morning and later pronounced dead at MetroHealth hospital, the county reported.

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a killing he always maintained he had nothing to do with ...

A Phoenix mother sentenced for the 2021 murders of her two young daughters was found dead in her prison cell today in what appeared to be a suicide by hanging. Retta Cruse, 36, pleaded guilty in ...

Officers immediately went to the cell of Wende K. Routh ... an investigation into the incident remains ongoing. She entered the jail on Feb. 3 as she was held in connection to a probation violation.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), a national prison advocacy group, is suing Jefferson County officials over allegedly censoring mail and prison legal news ...

Do your job.” The COs on the picket line say, you first. “We need the governor to step in and fix our broken prison system,” said Hluska. “They’ve created an environment where nobody ...