An inmate was attending a mental health evaluation in probate court when he fled the Greene County Courthouse, according to the sheriff.

A man who was sentenced to life in prison was accidentally released from custody, prompting a multi-week-long search that ...

On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed its second death row inmate by firing squad.

The cellmate of Elias Angel Rivera, a 37-year-old Santa Rita Jail inmate who died after deputies found him unresponsive and ...

Police in Franklin County located an escaped inmate on Friday evening.Kylaha Seman was being held at the Chambersburg ...

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 ...

Clayton County jail staff mistakenly released Kathan Guzman late last month after failing to properly review his paperwork.

Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court ...

Christina Grayson said she was notified Tuesday that Kathan Guzman, the man convicted of killing her daughter, had been let ...

Five Minnesota sheriff’s offices have entered cooperation agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, bringing ...

A Kentucky teacher working at a juvenile detention center is accused of trying to get an inmate to kill her husband.