A former Syrian government official who was the head of one of that nation’s major prisons was found guilty by a jury today ...

A group that provides books to Texas inmates says new restrictions on prison donations could hinder their work.

Dorchester County deputies are searching for a woman they say escaped custody while receiving medical treatment at Trident ...

Republicans in the state Assembly are seeking amendments to the statute governing the use of solitary confinement in state prisons, where conditions continue fuel a staffing crisis.

New video, exclusively obtained by NBC6, captured the moment when a Miami-Dade corrections officer allegedly beat up an ...

Johnson left the jail at 7:04 a.m. for work and went to his job at W7573 River Road in Oakfield. Investigators said he later left in the afternoon, triggered a Flock camera hit in Fond du Lac at 3:55 ...

In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago.

Marshall Drake, an inmate at John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Oviedo, was found dead in his cell on Thursday.

Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

An inmate was killed in February at Oklahoma's understaffed medium-security prison in Holdenville on the same day corrections officials gave a tour to a prosecutor who had called the facility a ...

Prison guards found 36-year-old J. Trinidad Ramirez stabbed to death in the J Housing Unit of the prison on Nov. 26.

It's more costly to house inmates at higher security levels, but the Michigan Corrections Organization says the system needs more high-security beds.