A lawsuit over conditions in a local state prison can move forward thanks to a ruling from a federal judge. The lawsuit claims several inmates were kept in small showers for days with no bathroom ...

Two of the six offenders charged in connection with the June 2022 beating death of a fellow inmate at Colorado State ...

The 40-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

James Damonte Beasley was at Southern Regional Medical Center when he became unaccounted for, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office announced Saturday morning.

A female prison officer has been accused of having sexual relationships with two inmates and plotting to smuggle drugs into the high-security jail. Isabelle Dale, 23, was employed at the high ...

An inmate is suspected of killing another incarcerated man Saturday morning at High Desert State Prison in Susanville. Prison officials recovered an “improvised weapon” from the scene and are ...

SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR ... High Desert State Prison, operational since 1995, accommodates about 2,900 inmates and offers educational, ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was sentenced Friday to seven years and three months in prison, putting a bookend on the more than two-year scandal that captivated Washington and brought the ...

A former Alabama state prison officer who pleaded guilty to sex with an inmate must register as a sex offender, even though the sexual misconduct was with a consenting adult, the Alabama State ...

Those changes have meant consequences for local county jails. Erie County, for instance, held only two inmates bound for state prison the week the unsanctioned strikes began in February.

The FBI was notified, and no other inmates or employees were injured. The BOP would not identify the assailant. "For privacy, safety, and security reasons, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP ...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Venezuelan man who was deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador — the second time the ...