Authorities say the number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison has risen to 17, a day after the goriest prison episode under the watch of President Daniel Noboa ...

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

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

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

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

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

When asked how inmates dying in custody impacts other inmates, Derocher said the jail tries to minimize the number of inmates ...

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

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

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?

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 ...