As a result of her actions, many female staff at the prison had reported an increase in being "hit on" by inmates and were ...

An inmate took five staff hostage at a prison in southern French city Arles on Friday, police and prison service sources told AFP.

A prisoner serving a life sentence is facing a further long sentence after admitting attacking another inmate with a makeshift weapon at HMP Frankland, Durham. But any sentence passed on killer ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden’s decision to commute sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life in prison without parole has been condemned by President-elect Donald Trump, who hopes to expand ...

Tremaine Carroll allegedly raped multiple inmates while at Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla after securing placement there by self-identifying as transgender. The Transgender ...

Thirty-three inmates were killed and 15 others sustained injuries during a violent clash with security forces, Mozambique's police chief Bernardino Rafael announced. The mass prison break occurred ...

A correction officer was killed Christmas Day by an inmate in Chillicothe ... president of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association. The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association represents ...

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction posted to Facebook that Correction Officer Andrew Lansing died Wednesday morning "following an inmate assault" at the Ross Correctional ...

An inmate in the Forsyth County Jail was charged with murder Monday in connection with a Winston-Salem woman’s death in April, authorities said Tuesday. Troy Damentrice Abbitt, 24, is accused of ...

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences, commuting their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The announcement is sure ...

Kathy Hochul of New York has ordered that 13 corrections officers and a prison nurse be fired after the fatal beating of an inmate in an ... all grateful for their service,” she said in a ...