A former inmate at the Cambria County Prison was sentenced in federal court to 24 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of conducting and ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan and two guards have been sued, with the lawsuit saying a man was killed by a cellmate ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan and two guards have been sued, with the lawsuit saying the man was killed by a ...

A female prison warden has been charged with raping an inmate holed up inside a men’s jail. Johnesha Rucker, 28, was nabbed ...

The Clearfield County Jail’s new inmate maintenance work program drew high praise from the Clearfield County Prison Board at ...

Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, reinforcing Texas's position as the nation's leader in capital punishment. Texas has put more inmates to death than the next four states ...

An arrest affidavit said she made it through police, a strip search, and an X-ray scanner at the jail with drugs hidden in a ...

Documents say a former Riley County corrections officer was in a romantic relationship with a Riley County Jail inmate in the fall when the pair exchanged “love notes” and she ...

Jail administrators across Mississippi are forming a unified organization to improve how detention facilities operate, ...

State corrections officials have fired two jail guards they say ran a drug ring at a Fayette County prison, fueled by code ...

A judge has decided former death row inmate Richard Glossip can get out of jail on a $500,000 bond as he awaits his third ...