The former deputy arrived at work in Castaic with a pound of heroin buried in two Pringles cans and $15,000 in cash in his ...

Miami-Dade Corrections Chief Omar Fernandez was arrested on DUI charges and placed on leave pending investigation.

Arkansas prison officials faced hours of questioning by lawmakers who asked how Grant Hardin, a convicted murderer and rapist, had managed to escape from prison.

Taylor Kitsch, the star of "Friday Night Lights" and "Lone Survivor," will lead the independent survival thriller "Eleven ...

Two staff members from the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility were killed in an off-duty auto crash in Pueblo West ...

Michael Meiser was assigned to Operation Safe Jails, a unit dedicated to investigating gang and drug activity in the Los ...

The State Department formally advised staffers Thursday that it would be sending layoff notices to some of them soon, coming ...

A handful of Democratic state lawmakers in Florida filed a lawsuit on Thursday after they were denied entry into the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility, according to court records.

A judge sentenced a Waukegan man to 44 years in prison after he was convicted of opening fire on a victim, nearly shooting him in the head, during a road rage incident in broad daylight near McHenry.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said ICE told detainees they were exposed to TB while being held in Anchorage.

Lester Isbill stopped breathing and died in the Feb. 6 incident, a family attorney said. Responders restarted his heart. He ...

RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – Two more former correctional officers have been sentenced for their role in the assault and ...