For years, North Carolina government agencies have told of struggles to recruit and retain employees. Officials now say the staffing situation is so dire that it poses a risk to existing staff and ...

Phillip Vance Smith II is serving a life sentence at Neuse Correctional in Goldsboro, but he has published stories in Slate ...

Staggering overtime costs are stacking up at the New Hampshire state prison, with chronic staffing issues taking their toll, ...

BARBOUR COUNTY, Ala. (WTVM) - Barbour County Sheriff Tyrone Smith is asking voters to approve a referendum on the May 19 ...

A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal beating of an inmate at an upstate New York ...

Prison guards in New York say the state's correctional system is in crisis. Both guards and inmates are pleading with the state to fix what they say is a broken system.

As North Carolina lawmakers work to finalize a state budget next week, one group of state employees said they’re desperate for change: correctional officers.

Nick Marco left his job as a corrections officer at a maximum security Upper Peninsula prison after being stabbed by an inmate who had a handmade weapon. “If you’re assaulted, you almost always have ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A convicted murderer from Gaston County has been charged with attempted murder after officials say he attacked a correctional officer at Columbus Correctional Institution.

A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer and a suspected drug trafficker have been charged in connection with an alleged scheme to smuggle cocaine into Los Angeles County, ...