A California corrections officer is recovering after being stabbed twice by an inmate using a makeshift weapon, authorities announced Monday. The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the ...

Investigators are working to determine if a man serving a prison term for a Sacramento County burglary was killed by his ...

The inmate who walked away from Acton Conservation Camp in Los Angeles County was arrested Thursday morning in ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the death of an inmate at North Kern State ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

This has raised concern in Parliament's Correctional Services Portfolio Committee. Chairperson Anthea Ramolobeng says this is increasing the burden on South Africa's prisons.

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

Those who walked out of prison included Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys group who was sentenced to 22 years, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes ...

Chairperson of Parliament's Correctional Services Committee, Anthea Ramolobeng. Picture: Phando Jikelo/Parliament CAPE TOWN - The chairperson of Parliament’s correctional services portfolio ...

Colette Peters has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Prisons after 30 months on the job just as President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday. Deputy Director William Lathrop will take over ...