A state lawmaker wants to triple the rate local jails are paid to house inmates who are waiting to be transferred to a state ...

Gregory Dwayne Smith Jr. was sentenced to 20 years for rape and related charges following an August 2024 assault at a ...

Both Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature say they want the aging Green Bay ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he experienced “psychological torture,” physical abuse and alarming conditions while housed in El ...

In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.

He sprayed 10 rounds from an assault rifle at the 14-year-old boy as he approached his vehicle and later told authorities he ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Leo Plenty Arrows, a 36-year-old inmate at the state prison in Sioux Falls, has died. A release from the Department of Corrections stated that Plenty Arrows apparently ...

The Brief An inmate at Georgia's Hancock State Prison has died after officials say he was stabbed multiple times with a homemade weapon in the prison yard. Hancock County Coroner Dontrelle Andrews ...

New York’s Department of Corrections quietly removed the superintendent of Mid-State Correctional Facility last month, according to Spectrum News. The move came shortly before a federal lawsuit ...

Many of the prison officers already face criminal charges after the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision launched an investigation into Nantwi’s death on March 2, 2025.

And to add insult to injury, since the state fired more than 2000 correction officers, it was forced to lower the minimum age to become a corrections officer from 21 to 18.