Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

The correctional officers’ life expectancy at the Allegheny County Jail is 61 years of age, 16 years below the life expectancy of the average American. Experts agree that a critical difference in what ...

Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks said Monday that House budget-approved cuts to her agency would create major problems. “These cuts may appear to bring short-term savings, but they guarantee ...

WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. — The Georgia Department of Corrections is responding after a corrections officer at Johnson State Prison ...

showing corrections officers punching and kicking Brooks just hours before he was pronounced dead. Some of those officers are still employed with the Department of Corrections and Community ...

Several correctional officers at a northwest Illinois prison were hospitalized Wednesday after a possible exposure to an unknown substance, officials confirmed. The incident occurred at Federal ...

Former correctional officer Geoffrey Peters pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the death of inmate Timothy McQuesten. McQuesten died of asphyxia in his cell at the ACI in Cranston ...

BENTON, La. — A former Bossier Parish corrections officer has been arrested on multiple charges. Colton Davis, who was hired by the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office in October 2023, faces two ...

A state corrections officer fired for allegedly assaulting an individual is not entitled to jobless benefits, a judge has ruled. According to state records, Jordan Nuno was employed by the Eighth ...

At least 17 correctional officers were sent to the hospital after being exposed to narcotics at the federal penitentiary in Thomson. Officials said all were exposed in the mail room. A spokesman ...

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