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 ...

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

Virginia Department of Corrections Officer Jeremy Lewis Hall died at a hospital following an inmate attack at an Independence ...

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