The 40-year-old inmate was serving time for a robbery conviction.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it notified Maine Gov. Janet Mills of the beginning of a federal investigation into whether the state engages in a pattern or practice of housing ...

The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office arrested a former Sedgwick County Department of Corrections employee on a charge of ...

The 29-year-old man worked as an officer at the Sedgwick County Adult Residential Facility.

For destroying video footage of a prisoner’s fatal stabbing, the Georgia Department of Corrections has been sanctioned by a federal judge in an associated lawsuit against the officer blamed for ...

Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all its prison cells.

A new report released Monday highlights the dozens of Ohio death penalty cases in which potentially innocent people have been ...

How one man used drones to flood Ohio prisons with illicit drugs and cell phones ...

The court video shows an accomplice outside the building hooking that rope to a line dangling from the rec room window while inmates inside try to tug the packages up. Prosecutors say the recording ...

Detectives say he dragged her body into traffic on the highway, where she was struck by a car.

Two men who had been held on Rikers Island died in the past week, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would “pursue every avenue ...

An April 2025 indictment accused 10 officers of being involved in Nantwi's beating and then meeting at Raspberries, a local ...