Destruction of a historic downtown Calcasieu Parish building will begin this week. But the hundreds of thousands who’ve ...

Two parents who kept an 11-year-old child living with autism in a makeshift jail cell will have to serve a year of probation, a judge ordered Wednesday.

A former principal of an elementary school in Waterbury claimed that school officials raised several concerns about the boy ...

CRANSTON – The locks on some prison cell doors in Maximum Security at the Adult Correctional Institutions are malfunctioning, “a real significant problem,” says the head of the correctional officers’ ...

Jeffery Scanlan and Misty Scanlan pleaded guilty Jan. 8 to a misdemeanor child neglect charge. On Wednesday a judge sentenced ...

Rising prison health care costs are prompting corrections officials to rethink everything from medication distribution to ...

“Prison officials have been informed that one inmate named Thitisan Utthanaphon has been found dead,” the statement said. The 44-year-old was found sitting against his cell door with “no ...

A trial for a Louisville teen illuminated the chaos of a high-profile riot in Adair County and showed how systemic errors ...

A former prison guard pleaded guilty to sexually ... comments” toward a different inmate, staring into her cell and kicking her cell door, documents said. On multiple occasions when Rivera ...