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

Early Friday morning, jail staff notified the sheriff’s office that 33-year-old Dextarius Tierre Earies had died while he was ...

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

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

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

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, ...

Prison inmate death under investigation, Maryland’s second in a week ...