Oshay Hicks, 33, was charged with second-degree murder for killing his cellmate, Walter Davis, 37, at the Louisiana State ...

An Atlantic County corrections officer was sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling contraband into the the jail, ...

An inmate's girlfriend paid the corrections officer to carry packages of contraband into the Atlantic County jail.

Multiple inmates were injured, with one severely, following a large-scale altercation at Arizona State Prison Complex–Eyman.

Twelve prisoners have been charged with murder and other crimes in a fight that left four inmates dead and a dozen injured at ...

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.

A dispute last fall at the Westville Correctional Facility that left an inmate dead on the day he was to be released has now resulted in a charge of reckless homicide against a 49-year-old inmate who ...

Journalist Michael Berryhill didn't just help secure the freedom of Eroy Brown. His book on the murder trial of Brown exposed the cruelty of the Texas prison system, writes UH professor ...

The Niagara County Sheriff's Office says staff at the jail were alerted to the fire after an alarm went off. After ...

MARCY, N.Y. — A former prison guard has been found guilty of manslaughter, but not guilty of murder, in the death of Messiah Nantwi, an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy. An Oneida ...