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Jazz singer Peggy King is 95. Actor William Katt (“Greatest American Hero”) is 74. Actor LeVar Burton is 68. Rapper-actor Ice ...

Lee, is the alleged leader of the Sixx gang, while Roberts was detained because he was allegedly recruited to attack prison officers. Leading up to the December 30 declaration of the State of ...

The Northern Territory government will introduce legislation to parliament next week enabling the Corrections Commissioner to source prison guards ... and parole officers, including external ...

A new bill, HB 1070, would help correctional officers access the same services as firefighters and law enforcement.

An investigation was under way today after three prison officers were stabbed during the latest disturbance at a high security jail. Six long-term inmates in a special unit at Shotts Prison in ...

A former Stoneham Auxiliary Police officer was sentenced on Friday in ... Gorton to 27 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release. Ponzo was also ordered to pay a $300,000 ...

An inmate at an Alabama federal prison was sentenced to more than four years in a federal lockup after he punched and injured a female corrections officers earlier this year, prosecutors announced ...

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was found guilty of using excessive force when he assaulted and pepper-sprayed a woman ...