A former corrections sergeant accused of abusing a 19-year-old female inmate in a cell without surveillance cameras is ...

Authorities are investigating the suspicious death of an inmate at a Northern California prison after he was found ...

The former prosecutor, who helped put the former police chief who escaped from an Arkansas prison on Sunday behind bars, ...

The death of an inmate at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Monday.

Volunteers, as they are called in death penalty circles, have been around since the death penalty was reinstated 50 years ago ...

Prison officials say the correctional office was conducting a cell extraction when inmate Dannuzio Patron allegedly attacked.

As the search continues for the remaining escaped inmates from Orleans Justice Center, WDSU is hearing from people who said they spotted the escapees in several places across New Orleans. That ...

Sources confirm to sister station WDSU that the employee, a maintenance worker, was booked on principal to simple escape and ...

Prosecutors say John Stinson, Kenneth Johnson and Francis Clement will probably spend the rest of their lives in federal ...

The FBI is offering $5,000 for tips that would lead to the arrest of any of the inmates. According to OPSO, the escape began around 12:23 a.m. Friday, when detainees began tampering with a locked ...

Seven inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail over the weekend remain at large, with the FBI and other agencies offering ...

It would take you a full business week to be able to afford a two-ounce tube of toothpaste and a bag of hot Cheetos," said a California lawmaker about wages paid to jail inmate workers.