Prison guards who roughly handled a one-legged inmate who had just had a seizure suspected he had taken illicit drugs, an ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is now facing two wrongful death lawsuits after women were ...

A wrongful death lawsuit filed against the state of Arizona alleges gross negligence in the death of an inmate who died last ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) has one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation. That’s why its decision to close the Quehanna Boot Camp last month, the state prison with the ...

Dale Franquet Jr., his family and more than a dozen federal prison guards watched Tuesday in U.S. Middle District Court as ...

A corrections officer in South Jersey who ruptured an inmate's ear in an assault is to serve the next five years in state prison.

A correctional officer with Hardeman County Correctional Facility has been released from the hospital after being assaulted ...

Flax, who became a state prison guard in 2013, was accused of entering inmate Julio Valdez’s cell at South Woods State Prison ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' attempt to transfer control over the Arkansas prison system to herself is "unconstitutional," a ...

Mississippi Today continues its investigation into the alleged denial of health care in the state prison system.  Christopher Boose awoke to see a sign for the paraplegic unit at the hospital where he ...

Sheriff Kyle Rosa credits county leadership for helping reinstate a position he calls “integral” to jail operations.

A man who worked as a corrections officer at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility allegedly was caught having sex ...