The family of an inmate who died after corrections officers violently beat him last month in a Central New York prison has filed a lawsuit claiming state officials oversee a “dangerously broken” ...

South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith told an unknown male caller that she "wouldn't talk" to the media weeks before she was ...

"Don't ask, don't tell. The guy running around talking about how he's in for 'a body' is a liar. He's definitely a deflecting ...

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on nine female prisoners at ...

Drones could be used to smuggle guns into jails and airlift escaping prisoners, a union warned, after they were branded a ...

Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are working to extinguish the massive blaze scorching Los Angeles. Here's how much they ...

California DA warns judge, to no avail, it's "absolutely disrespectful to and traumatic to the victims" by forcing them to ...

Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to three men suspected of being top members of the Aryan Brotherhood.

The man used unwitting bookstores to ship the books to subvert prison security by making it seem as if inmates purchased them ...

Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do participants actually do and get paid?

Staffers at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia weighed whether to charge the inmates “thousands of dollars for the hospital ...

Deaths in Missouri prisons have increased in number despite a drop in the number of people incarcerated. The Missouri ...