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 ...

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

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

Arkansas doesn't have a legal way to bring someone back to the state to serve prison time if they are released by authorities ...

President Trump's Justice Department opposed temporary restraining order, claiming female inmates didn't exhaust their ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.