Four sheriff’s deputies at Men’s Central Jail were attacked Sunday by a group of inmates armed with a shank, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials and two sources ...

Four deputies were sent to the hospital, including one who suffered a puncture wound, when multiple inmates were involved in an attack at the Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles on Sunday.

A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department custody assistant pleaded no contest to committing sex crimes against an inmate in a Lancaster jail cell in 2019. The district attorney announced ...

The firing squad fired from 15 feet away, and witnesses could see the right-side profile of the condemned inmate, according to the DOC’s protocol. Each of the executioners fired once from their ...

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN EITHER DEATH. THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS NOW INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF AN INMATE AT CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON, SACRAMENTO, AS A HOMICIDE. THE DEATH WAS FIRST ...

(NEXSTAR) – A South Carolina death row inmate is set to be executed on Friday, March 7. Instead of the more traditional lethal injection, the inmate—Brad Sigmon, 67—has chosen to die by ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say may be making a comeback in more states as lethal injection drugs become ...

EVANS DIED TUESDAY AFTERNOON INSIDE THE PRISON. BEFORE HIS DEATH, THOUGH, THE STATE WAS ALREADY FACING A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FROM INMATES. THESE FOLKS HAVE BEEN THROUGH HELL. ATTORNEY LONNIE ...

New York state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is struggling to keep striking officers on the job, as it grapples with the fallout from two high-profile inmate deaths and ...

A police investigation is underway after an inmate died Saturday at a New York state prison, where more than a dozen staff members connected to the incident were subsequently placed on ...

Nearly a dozen staff members are on administrative leave and state officials are investigating after an inmate at a New York medium-security prison died over the weekend, prison officials told USA ...