GLENNVILLE, Ga. — A one-minute video recording of a Georgia inmate being beaten and stabbed was captured inside the Smith State Prison was shared this week on social media. It was just after ...

As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia’s troubled prison system, they may face an extra challenge: Conditions inside the wire appear to be getting even worse.

Regis Darnell Jackson, 35, was found unresponsive inside a housing unit Wednesday morning, according to officials.

The Roane County Sheriff's Office said the escaped inmate was at around 2:15 p.m. Saturday — a few hours after authorities ...

A man described as one of Oregon’s “most wanted fugitives” has been captured in Georgia 30 years after escaping from a correctional facility in Salem as part of a prisoner work crew.

A 23-year-old man will remain behind bars after Georgia deputies said another inmate overdosed at a detention center. On Dec. 28, Habersham County deputies caught Cameron Joseph Myers, 23 ...