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 ...

Uptown People’s Law Center and Equip for Equality filed a class action lawsuit against IDOC Director Latoya Hughes on behalf ...

The Fort Bend County District Attorney's Office is investigating the death of an inmate at the county jail. Tamion Kenon, 34, was alone in his cell when he died April 3, according to the district ...

Iranian directorial duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha have been given a 14-month suspended jail sentence by an Iranian court on charges that include alleged production of obscene content ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using the Marion County Adult Detention Center to jail immigrants picked up in Indiana and neighboring states, according to local attorneys and ...