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

John Kennedy Javier Sebastian had been one of 10,000 inmates at Lima's Lurigancho prison — Peru's most crowded, and built to hold 2,500. On Monday night, he escaped from his cell, "bypassed ...

An Arizona Senate committee is launching a probe into the state corrections department after an inmate allegedly killed three ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections director said he is working with the State Senate and will meet with them in the next ...

The sheriff’s office has put a stop to an attempt to smuggle drugs into the Rowan County Detention Center, according to ...

Colombo, April 23 (Daily Mirror) - Following the clash between two groups of inmates at the Matara Prison, all inmates of the Matara Prison are currently being transferred to the Angunakolapelessa ...

Mr Taylor commended the prison for its strong leadership, high expectations placed on inmates, and 'a culture of prisoner-led initiatives' and called it 'the best prison I have seen in my time as ...

Inmates at the UK's largest prison can now shop their favourite frozen food from Greggs to Chicago Town pizzas at Britain first 'in-prison' Iceland branch. Food retailer Iceland, which has 900 ...

Senate Public Safety Committee Chairman Kevin Payne announced he is launching a probe into the Arizona Department of ...

Two inmates at a Southern Nevada state prison and a third at a facility near Carson City have died in the past week, according to authorities. Michael Sonner, 57, who was convicted and awaiting ...

WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. — The Georgia Department of Corrections is responding after a corrections officer at Johnson State Prison was arrested for allegedly allowing the beating of two inmates, arrest ...