Gierra Perdue died in the Franklin County Jail after medical staff failed to check on her. Two years later, her mother is ...

Northern California inmate David Brinson is accused of killing his wife Stephanie during a November visit, according to ...

Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele made an unprecedented and controversial offer: to incarcerate U.S. citizens in El ...

Convicted murdered Nevin Whetstone, who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary was captured in Sunflower County on ...

A Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and USA TODAY Network Ohio investigation found that jail staff ignored serious medical conditions and injuries, withheld life-saving medicine and equipment ...

In Oneida County, home to three state prisons, 85 current and former prison workers have applied to work in that county's jail, a lawsuit states.

A decision to tell the Scioto County Jail to let his son out led to disciplinary action against Portsmouth Municipal Court Judge Russell D. Kegley.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A strike that paralyzed New York's prison system for three weeks ended Monday with most workers returning to their jobs and state officials firing about 2,000 holdouts who didn't ...

Daniel Schwarz, 48, and his wife "forced their daughter to jump on a trampoline for an extended period without food or water ...

A Colorado dentist of more than 20 years flew to PBIA last year to pursue his illicit fantasy. One problem: The 'mom' was a ...

Human rights advocates warn that the deportees legal rights were violated as they were transferred to the CECOT, a ...

Mass deportations are being planned by the U.S. government — and that could mean a big boom in business for private prisons.