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 ...

On Friday, May 15, Ukraine and Russia conducted the first stage of a 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner exchange, with 205 Ukrainians ...

A New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof published Monday detailed graphic allegations of sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israeli guards, amplifying claims that guards had used dogs to ...

Over four years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, some of the Russians imprisoned in its early days are still in jail. Even people with no previous political activism have been landed with long prison ...

Israel plans to sue The New York Times and one of its journalists for defamation over an article that said Israeli soldiers, ...

A Honduran man has admitted he was among the more than a dozen inmates who assaulted three other inmates from African ...

A former Marcy Correctional Facility officer was sentenced Thursday in Oneida County Court to four years in prison for the ...

A former inmate says he witnessed officers beat Aubrey McKay to death at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Virginia.

Violence, mayhem and chess-playing hostages all elements of a wacky, behind-bars uprising that snagged national headlines, TV ...

Former Minnesota prison guard detained by ICE, accused of multiple acts of immigration fraud The state Department of Corrections said it conducts comprehensive background screening and employment ...