The Nevada Department of Corrections reported the deaths of five inmates, including three convicted of murder, between late ...

A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in ... Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit once held hundreds of inmates for more than a decade. Now, it’s nearly empty.

For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison ... assault and harassment of inmates by prison staff. A year later, a March ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

An inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center in southern County allegedly attacked an officer with an “improvised weapon” ...

Jose Bueno was also convicted of assault by a life prisoner. He had previously been convicted of four strikes, including for murder. Jose Bueno faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, without the ...

A prisoner serving life for second-degree murder at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center is suspected in the attempted ...