The fire was sparked when an inmate tried to use an electrical outlet as a lighter, according to the president of the ...

The Department of Corrections justified its $553 million request to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Safety ...

Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters is out as the head of the beleaguered agency and her track record was mixed.

A Republican lawmaker from Lane proposed changing the name from Department of Corrections to Department of Corruption ...

DOC officials said they are not able to share any further information on this change because of security concerns.

The Missouri Department of Corrections announced that an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center died at a Jefferson ...

An inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center died on Tuesday, according to a Wednesday press release from the Missouri ...

Jenkins' uniform has nine blue stripe patches. Each represent five years of service in the Department of Correction.

Nicholas pleaded guilty to Unlawful Possession of a Weapon by a Felon, a class 2 felony, and was sentenced to 7 years in the ...

Two independent contractors who worked on Arizona executions in 2022 received $60,000 in cash each, said retired U.S. Magistrate Judge David Duncan.

The new agreement includes a plan to send 240 Montana inmates to the company's private prison in Tutwiler, Mississippi.

Records obtained by CBS Colorado show the Colorado Department of Corrections purchased hundreds of Motorola cameras for the ...