The number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador's largest and most dangerous prison rose to 17, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the goriest prison episode under the watch of President Daniel ...

Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt says she will appeal the order from the Minnesota Department of Corrections because it's ...

One of the slides revealed the cause of death of up to 58 inmates booked into the Tarrant County Jail. Waybourn insists that ...

The partially-redacted 173-page report said women would call him after receiving his personal phone number from other inmates ...

A prison has been become like an “airport” with drugs being brought in by drones through holes burned in cell windows, an ...

As part of a sweeping two-year investigation into prison labor, The Associated Press found that correctional staff nationwide ...

A mystery illness has reportedly broken out in Jamaica's adult correctional facilities, with a number of inmates in four of these facilities falling sick, while one death being investigated to ...

An inmate at a California's Kern Valley State Prison is accused of killing his cellmate, who was serving a life sentence with ...

In response to a parliamentary question from MP Alberto Catalán of the Union of the Navarrese People (UPN) about the ...

The Prison Rape Elimination Act, passed more than two decades ago, created a channel for filing reports that resulted in a ...

Sheriff's Department Clarifies Number of In-Custody Deaths at Correctional Facilities in San Bernardino County ...

Challenger Nathan Buchanan accuses media of failing to report on the true extent of jail deaths, deputy resignations. Sheriff ...