Westchester and state officials began investigating because of an increase in the number of cell phones confiscated from ...

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

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

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 ...

PATTERN overpredicted general recidivism among Black male inmates by between 2% and 3%. According to the DOJ report, this number rose to 6% to 7% for Black women, relative to white women. PATTERN ...

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

With North Dakota's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facing overcrowding, the Burleigh Morton Detention Center in ...

Waybourn said jailers had intervened and stopped 279 suicide attempts in 2023, and that number is already 350 this year.

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

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

More than 100 inmates die in Missouri prisons each year and that number is continuing to rise, bringing attention to the ...

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