'It worked out great. Sometimes he worked night shift, and I worked day shift, so I got the cell to myself. He was quiet, we ...

During the strikes, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) asked Governor ...

Postcard Bandit” Brenden Abbott’s quest for freedom has inadvertently backfired, potentially extending his time behind bars ...

John Davis Manning, 34, of Indiana County, was charged on June 30 following an investigation by Middlesex Township Police, ...

A prisoner from North Wales threw a kettle filled with boiling water over his sleeping cellmate, during a row over a vape.

The childcare worker accused of sickening sexual offences is the son of a prison officer who was embroiled in controversy ...

An investigation has finished into the death of a prisoner who was placed in handcuffs while in a coma. Steven Lee, a ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

Taylor Sanchez pleaded no contest to first-degree intentional homicide in the beating death of Cindy Schulz-Juedes at ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Aboriginal teen Cleveland Dodd had been isolated in squalor for three months when he took his own life inside Western Australia’s failed experiment in juvenile justice – an annexed wing of a maximum ...

Critics say the jail’s cage-like enclosures constitute a form of solitary confinement that exacerbates mental illness and ...