A corrections officer in a Virginia prison was killed in an attack by an inmate, the state corrections department said.

Tasha Hammock, 43, the former state employee, pleaded guilty to providing contraband to a prison inmate. She is accused by ...

The South Dakota Department of Corrections says a state prison inmate has died at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield ...

Jesse Daniel Williams III, 46, who died Sunday, was serving a 30 year sentence from Michigan for possession of cocaine with ...

The sheriff's office said on Nov. 13, corrections deputies conducted a sweep of numerous cells inside the jail and found ...

SD's attorney general is criticizing the state's prison system as DCI opens another investigation into a suspected drug ...

Officials in Louisiana are searching for a escaped inmate, who fled from jail after allegedly throwing a chemical substance ...

Prisons officials in Ecuador say deadly rioting that broke out at a prison where inmates were set to be transferred to a new ...

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life ...

California prison officials are investigating a riot involving about 20 inmates that broke out Monday morning at California ...

A corrections officer at River North Correctional Center in Grayson County was killed Monday morning following an attack by ...

The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Department said two inmates broke out after a "brief struggle," during which a chemical substance was thrown at a police officer's face.