The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in ...

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at ...

New York City’s only federal prison added yet another high-profile musical talent to its inmate roster Wednesday.

A sheriff who participated in the infamous manhunt for escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat in 2015 compared it to ...

A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Thursday that the Waseca Federal Correctional Institution was ...

Minnesota Correctional Facility - Stillwater, the state's largest prison, is on temporary lockdown after several staff ...

Amber Higdon left the 3-week-old puppies trapped in a plastic tote on the side or a road on a day when temps reached 95 ...

Inmates at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center attacked and stabbed two corrections officers multiple times Wednesday ...

State corrections officials have launched a homicide investigation after a convicted killer from Alameda County died ...

Five officers were hurt in stabbings at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts, on Wednesday ...

Nine workers at a Minnesota prison fell ill and were hospitalized after being exposed to unknown synthetic substances ...

Overcrowding in Scotland's jails and pressure on the PM ahead of Labour party conference leads today's front pages.