A Winston-Salem teenager pleaded guilty last week to second-degree murder in a man’s death in September 2021, court records ...

Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and prisons whose populations have continued to grow after dip ...

Because of several departures of corrections officers, the Clearfield County Jail is again understaffed, causing higher overtime expenses.

Local governments and insurers paid over $60 million to resolve and defend hundreds of jail-related claims in the last five ...

Officials have not released anything about the death of Travis P. Shorts, 34, who died at 2:55 a.m. on March 6 at Geisinger Medical Center near Danville. He had been hospitalized elsewhere on Feb. 10 ...

A California man was handed down a sentence of 168 months in federal prison on March 13, by United States District Judge D.P.

Anthony Williams, 41, Connor Brown, 22, and Zacharia Luz, 42, were killed in the July 30 fight at Ely State Prison.

Inmates at the Beaufort County Detention Center have been temporarily relocated to Pitt County after a fire broke out at the Washington facility Wednesday night.

Nevada prosecutors have filed multiple charges against 20 defendants over the incident, including first-degree murder and ...

The Pearl River County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division arrested a contract kitchen employee and multiple inmates after an investigation uncovered contraband distribution at the county jail. For ...

Critics of Prop. 36 say the law makes simple drug possession a felony, dramatically increasing costs to taxpayers for ...

A proposed California bill could increase pay for inmate firefighters housed in county jails and state prisons. Assembly Bill 247, if approved, would require jail inmates assigned to work active ...