Starting this fall, two dozen Macomb Correctional Facility inmates will be eligible to earn a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wayne State University.

In a news conference Tuesday, Jackley announced 24 inmates have been indicted on charges in connection to May 27 fights at the State Penitentiary that left 14 inmates injured. One of those inmates ...

About 100 men graduated from Chowchilla's Valley State Prison equine therapy program on Tuesday.

A small watchdog agency over Ohio's adult and juvenile prisons would be drastically changed under the state budget bill.

Sanchez Jackson dies at Macon State amid a violent week for Georgia prisons. The cause is under investigation, with the GBI crime lab involved.

An inmate at Georgia's Hancock State Prison has died after officials say he was stabbed multiple times with a homemade weapon in the prison yard.

SPARTA, Ga. — A Hancock State Prison inmate was stabbed to death Tuesday in the prison yard, according to Hancock County Coroner Dontrelle Andrews.

Inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison have declared a hunger strike, effective Friday, to protest what they claim are unlawful practices by the California Department of Corrections and ...

On Monday, the corrections department said two Lincoln-based construction firms and one Papillion company submitted bids to build the facility to replace the Nebraska State Penitentiary.

A man trespassing at an abandoned New York prison for photos got trapped in a cell, then arrested by troopers, state police say. He faces a criminal charge.

ALBANY — The brutal deaths of two men in New York’s prison system have spurred legislation at the Capitol intended to prevent others in state correctional facilities from being met with the ...

High Desert State Prison and Lassen County officials are investigating the death of Joseph Reagan as a potential homicide at the Susanville facility.