A corrections officer agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in the case of a mentally ill man who froze to death in an Alabama jail.

A Wisconsin inmate accused of killing his cellmate for being Black and gay has been convicted. WLUK-TV reports that a jury ...

An inmate at a private prison in Ohio is suing after he says he was tied up and assaulted by other inmates while it was ...

Nearly a decade ago, New Orleans officials hailed their new jail as a harbinger of change.

Dannuzio Patron, 38, attacked a correctional officer with an improvised weapon while officers were attempting to remove him from the prison cell via a tactical team. Courtesy photo California ...

The UK government's Independent Sentencing Review, published today, calls for immediate reform to the sentencing framework in ...

Prison staff sceptical renting cells abroad will solve France's overcrowding crisis With prisons overflowing, France is considering renting cells abroad. But will this solve the problem or just ...

Sources confirm to sister station WDSU that the employee, a maintenance worker, was booked on principal to simple escape and ...

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their un-air-conditioned cells during the summer. The suit claims that the ...