The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirms an investigation is underway after an inmate was seriously hurt in an assault at a ...

Derrick Leysath, 22, was found unresponsive in his cell at FCI-Petersburg prison and pronounced dead. The FBI was notified.

The family of Saul Vargas is suing Galveston County Jail, alleging his death resulted from staff failing to intervene after a ...

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

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

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

Drones are flying onto prison grounds, often in the dark of night, and dropping contraband for inmates – everything from ...

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 ...

A man incarcerated in the Allegheny County Jail died after he was assaulted by multiple inmates on Wednesday afternoon, ...

All 10 inmates who escaped the Orleans Parish jail back in May have been captured.