The Senate panel's action followed a series of Free Press articles about fatal jumps and falls at two Jackson-area Michigan prisons.

USA TODAY's initial analysis of previously secret records shows how numbers of in-custody overdoses, murders and suicides ...

A Salinas Valley State Prison inmate has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a fellow inmate, per Monterey ...

Ian, a 28-year-old who suffered from mental illness, was lying unconscious in a hospital bed, his wrists shackled, while armed guards stood at the door. Life-support machines hummed in the sterile ...

Weeks after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a bill requiring air conditioning in those facilities by 2032 has gained traction in the House.

As two cellmates were fighting in a Riverside County jail, an inexperienced guard remotely opened the cell door, a violation ...

Riverside County jails are plagued with some of the nation's highest murder rates and repeated security failures, an ...

Baltimore filmmaker John Waters (voluntarily) spent the night in jail with four winners of an auction to raise money for the ...

Government Cheese kicks off with a bang, or should we say, a spoon? Apple TV+ delivers a surreal, heart-wrenching, and darkly funny story set in the late 1960s, centered on a man named Hampton Chamber ...

Six of the officers charged Wednesday were accused of assaulting Nantwi, while the other four were accused of participating ...

Some immigrant detention centers across the country are over capacity. The administration has asked for emergency contracts ...

While El Salvador officials have denied Van Hollen the opportunity to contact Abrego García, they have allowed numerous ...