The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is investigating the death of an inmate at High Desert ...

Officials at High Desert State Prison are Investigating the Death of an Incarcerated Person as a Homicide, CDCR Reports ...

Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

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

In an exclusive interview with NBC5, two former Upstate Corrections Officers shared their experiences after being exposed to ...

Inside the walls of the North Dakota State Penitentiary, transformation can feel like a long shot. But for a growing number ...

After 12 years, the class action lawsuit over living conditions at Stateville Correctional Center that helped bring the ...

Inmates sit in a treatment dorm at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, around the time of ...

Recently 155 cadets attended their graduation ceremony at the Richard A. McGee Correctional Training Center in Galt and ...

The head of West Virginia’s state corrections system, long plagued by overcrowding and inmate deaths, has been tapped to lead the agency that manages federal prisons beset by similar issues.

Authorities said the officer was found at the state prison's nearby housing unit Wednesday after he didn't show up for his shift. The correctional officers' union confirmed an officer was found ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry said "an altercation" at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson resulted in the death of three inmates. There was no ongoing ...