Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

A free workforce training program is being offered to those incarcerated in Crenshaw County. Every day looks the same behind ...

The U.S. Marshals Service has joined the search for John Matthew Nigh, 37, who escaped from the Craven County Detention Facility in New Bern, North Carolina on January 26th. Nigh has an extensive ...

I was relieved because I was like ‘ok he’s in jail now, he’s going to be ok, he’s safe.’ But I guess I was wrong,” Thelma said. “ The jail did not protect him. He was not safe in jail.” ...

A man was found "unresponsive" in his cell at 201 Poplar and died at the hospital a day later. The Shelby County Sheriff's ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Two inmates were determined to walk away from the Jim E Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen, Oklahoma, at 11:15 a.m., ...

Smoke filled the administrative confinement ward at the privately-owned Graceville Correctional Facility in Jackson County within minutes, one inmate told his mother. Inmates screamed out ...

The first is free online messaging for incarcerated people ... with family and friends on the outside at no cost. Requiring inmates and their families to pay for the messages themselves would ...

Authorities in Muskingum County are looking for an escaped inmate.  According to the Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office, Wayne S. Pletcher escaped the jail just after 5:00 ...

The justices on Friday rejected a request from Brad Sigmon’s lawyers to delay setting a date for his death until they get autopsy results from the inmate killed in last week’s lethal injection ...