Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? By Jan Ransom Jan Ransom has been covering the ...

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of dozens of current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male correctional officers watched them shower, harassed and groped them and ...

LOS ANGELES — A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of dozens of current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male correctional officers watched them shower, harassed and groped ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special needs women’s prison, lodging additional allegations of sexual ...

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UTICA, N.Y. — A former prison guard in Oneida County was sentenced to prison Friday morning for his involvement in the death of inmate and Greece native Robert Brooks. News10NBC’s affiliate in ...

A Piscataway man who works as a New Jersey Department of Corrections officer in the state's prison for sex offenders has been charged with sexually assaulting two inmates. Anthony Nelson, 37, was ...

A former correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse and related offenses following an attack last year that, officials said, ...

A person was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a small bus Thursday morning along a busy Peoria roadway. A man is in critical condition after being shot Thursday ...

PHOENIX – A West Valley inmate died Tuesday after the second recent fatal gang-related attack in an Arizona prison, authorities said. Jacob Major, 43, died at a Goodyear hospital after an attack at ...

QUITO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Ecuador's prison authority on Monday said 15 inmates at the Litoral prison in the city of Guayaquil were found dead between Thursday and Sunday. The agency said the cause of ...

Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event of the ...