A new Geriatric Release Report recommends prisoners get certificates of eligibility to petition the court for release if they ...

Russell “Rusty” Rahm was among more than 60 charged by federal prosecutors in what they called the nation’s biggest elder ...

NEW YORK — A video release Friday of prison officers beating an upstate inmate to death while he was restrained in hand and leg cuffs is sparking calls for a systemic overhaul. State lawmakers ...

In 2021, another female prison guard at the same jail, and also aged in her 50s, was charged over an alleged relationship with an inmate. She admitted to the allegations and was removed from her ...

Law enforcement in the US state of New York on Friday released "devastating" footage of prison guards beating a Black inmate shortly before he died. The body-worn camera footage, recorded the ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections has captured an inmate who escaped on Christmas Eve. The Mississippi Department of Corrections announced the capture of 33-year-old inmate Drew Johnson on ...

a 2012 report from the Justice Department estimated that over 200,000 inmates were sexually abused behind bars in one year alone. Many of those occur in men's prisons or happen to women at the ...

The two inmates involved in an incident at Yatala Labour Prison on Christmas Day have since been released from hospital.

A corrections officer at an Ohio prison was killed Christmas day when an inmate attacked him, authorities said Wednesday. The assault occurred Wednesday morning at the Ross Correctional ...

MAPUTO, Mozambique. (AP) — At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country’s police chief said, as ...