The Senate panel's action followed a series of Free Press articles about fatal jumps and falls at two Jackson-area Michigan prisons.

USA TODAY's initial analysis of previously secret records shows how numbers of in-custody overdoses, murders and suicides ...

Gov. Ned Lamont said the new solar panels at prisons in Enfield, Cheshire and Somers are 'greener, cleaner and more ...

Billy Bowlin (left) of the Bethel community and John Fryar (right) of the Staves community work on the new jail that made its ...

An Atlantic County jail inmate is facing assault charges after he allegedly punched a corrections officer 11 times last ...

Sarasota County's jail has been overpopulated for 20 years. Now, local criminal justice officials are raising the alarm that action must be taken.

Two inmates at the Jasper County Detention Center have been accused of starting a fire in a holding cell last fall that destroyed the booking area of the jail, seriously injuring multiple inmates and ...