Federal court-appointed monitors visited Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center in May for the first time in nearly three ...

Four more former Southern Regional Jail correctional officers were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the death ...

Two former West Virginia correctional officers have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate. According to a press release from ...

Red Onion State Prison was built in Pound in 1998 as the state’s first “supermax” prison to house the system’s most dangerous inmates. TIMES-DISPATCH FILE PHOTO ...

Inside 'The Box' With Some of Rikers Island's Most Violent Inmates: Part 1 Diane Sawyer went inside the unit called punitive segregation, where inmates are locked up for up to 23 hours a day ...