Virginia's juvenile justice director is raising questions about how one legislator obtained information about the facility through youth formerly incarcerated there.

JACKSON, Mich. — A man died after falling from an upper gallery at a Michigan prison, the fifth inmate since 2020 to die from falling or jumping at two prisons where railings are only a few feet high.

The jail in the county northeast of Houston has been out of compliance with the minimum standards of the Texas Commission on ...

Two former corrections officers charged with second-degree murder for the death of Othel Moore Jr. in the Jefferson City Correctional Center appeared in court Monday as their cases continue to move ...

State officials are ordering the Liberty County Jail to shut down, citing longstanding life-threatening conditions.

According to a report the jail submitted from the state, an officer had checked on her at 1:06 p.m., and she was found "in ...

The Sheriff's Office has released the names of nine officers suspended after an incident inside the jail that led to the ...

Kathan Guzman was convicted last year of murdering his girlfriend, 19-year-old Dalia Grayson, and was sentenced to life in ...

An Alabama state judge ruled that a lawsuit accusing Alabama prisons of illegally harvesting the organs of people who died while incarcerated will be allowed to proceed. The consolidated lawsuits ...

Over the years, law enforcement errors have allowed convicts and pre-trial detainees to walk free, with two such incidents happening in Clayton County in the past three years.

MARLBORO COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - A lockdown at the Marlboro County Detention Center led to five inmates facing new drug charges ...

Attorneys for two Tennessee inmates facing execution this year asked Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday to declare a reprieve until a ...