Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Palestinian prisoner waits to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007 (photo credit: RONEN ...

Lansing — A former officer at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility has been charged with four counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, Attorney General Dana Nessel's office announced ...

State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to a different reality. By Bianca Pallaro and Jan Ransom New York State prison ...

BRIDGEPORT — State officials say an inmate physically assaulted a guard at Bridgeport Correctional Center last week, the latest in a series of recent violent instances at Connecticut prisons. The ...

Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are ...

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and ...

Prisoners are being flown around the state amid revelations watchhouses are bursting at the seams, with frustrated police ...