A New York State Legislature budget hearing on health issues was briefly interrupted today by a protester demanding justice ...

The commissioners will be appealing to the Pennsylvania DOC and the governor to keep facilities open,” Commissioner Mark Higgins said.

The Grand Forks committee formed to explore a potential consolidation of the county sheriff's department and jail met for the ...

Chow time at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center on the last day of January had begun as usual. Corrections officer Deputy ...

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

As we continue to follow the plans to close several state correctional facilities, including the Rockview State Prison in ...

MINERAL POINT, Mo. – The Potosi Correctional Center announced Tuesday that an inmate was pronounced dead Monday morning. He ...

CoreCivic, one of the largest private detention companies in the country, is expecting a boom in business due to Trump policy changes.

An Atmore preacher, who was also an Alabama Department of Corrections employee, is no longer facing criminal charges after he ...

A former jailer has been sentenced after being caught bringing in contraband and lying about his military service.

More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois.