The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) is beginning to reduce operations at its Craggy Correctional Center ...

A dog was shot and killed after a reported dispute that began with a fight between two dogs, prompting a brief lockdown at ...

A Walker County judge has ruled Sheriff Nick Smith controls hiring inside the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, but county ...

Also this week, legal challenges to halt Tony Carruthers' execution saw a flurry of filings as his execution draws near.

In his filing, Jenkins tells the court that on Feb. 20 he and a correctional officer discovered a fellow inmate who was not ...

Staff at a medium-security correctional facility in Cape Vincent, N.Y. conducted multiple searches in April, recovering 10 ...

The records also show a sharp increase in the number of EMS responses to the jail that were prompted by injuries.

A judge ruled that a South Carolina inmate who killed a state trooper is incompetent to be executed due to mental illness delusions, citing mental health experts.

Ten men have been indicted in connection with a September 2025 brawl at Redwood City's Maguire Correctional Facility, county ...

An inmate, of 10 hospitalized in an Arizona prison fight, has died, officials said, adding there was now a homicide ...

FLORENCE, AZ (AZFamily) — An inmate has died nearly a week after a fight broke out at a state prison facility in Pinal County. Two others remain in the hospital. Arizona Department of Corrections, ...