BIG STONE GAP, Va. (AP) — An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who entered ...

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight When the South Dakota Department of Corrections announced the site where it hoped to ...

The Kansas Department of Corrections is searching for an escaped inmate after he failed to return to a work release facility.

JONESBORO, Ga. (WKRC) - A jail entered lockdown after authorities realized a convicted murderer had gone missing from their care. 12 hours later he was found in a courthouse holding cell, having been ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — A downstate woman is charged with sending drug-coated mail to inmates at a local prison. New York State Police said Elyse DeGeorge, 30, of Poughkeepsie was arrested Tuesday ...

A Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputy was charged with murder Friday, days after a 46-year-old man was found dead in the ...

Mark Fairhurst of the Prison Officers’ Association said overcrowding and violence were his members’ key concerns.

Ronald Dale Easthope confessed to eight Utah rapes in the 1970s and another in 1981, mostly in Sugar House, and was ...

Authorities say an undercover operation led to the arrest of two people trying to smuggle drugs into the Oklahoma County Detention Center.

According to OCCC officials, inmate John Mahaulu, 38, left his cell on a furlough pass Thursday morning, but failed to return ...

Four inmates at the Erie County Correctional Facility face charges after a search for contraband on April 30, according to ...

Four Erie County Correctional Facility inmates have been charged with promoting contraband after a recent search of one of the jail’s units resulted in the discovery of pills, plastic tubing, unknown ...