Howard County will have to keep its jail population at or below 292 inmates, allow for regular recreational time, build a new jail and more, according to a provisional private settlement reached with ...

Shawnee County was among defendants sued Friday over the death of a mentally ill man who had previously spent 14 days in the ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her ...

Inside the barbed wire walls of NCCI Gardner, a small group of inmates is taking advantage of a new initiative that could ...

Lester Monroe, 49, and Kyle Jones, 31, were sentenced to 35 and 50 years, respectively, for assaulting correctional officers ...

Stabbings, sexual assaults and drug use are rampant in the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center because of staff shortages and ...

California DA warns judge, to no avail, it's "absolutely disrespectful to and traumatic to the victims" by forcing them to ...

A huge village has sprung up on the golden sands of a beach in Malibu, becoming a temporary home for thousands of firefighters from all over North America to eat, sleep and recuperate when they aren't ...

A huge village has sprung up on the golden sands of a beach in Malibu, becoming a temporary home for thousands of ...

State prisoners have long been a part of California's firefighting force. Hundreds of them now are deployed in Los Angeles ...

12 inmates from Wakulla Correctional Institution officially graduated from Persevere, a nonprofit program in seven different states that piloted last year in the Florida Department of Corrections.

“A COIII job functions [sic] is different from a normal correctional officer,” court documents note. A COIII works as a counselor and programs advisor for inmates, providing Comon with ...