West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

Theodore Clifton Matthews, 43, was found unresponsive in his cell around 2:15 a.m. Prison staff and emergency medical ...

And inmates might be able to take an opportunity to escape or escalate the violence.” At the same time, Sisco said he has ...

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

The Trump administration is pulling funding from the Maine Department of Corrections over a transgender woman who is being ...

A 43-year-old man serving a 17.5-year sentence for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise died in southern ...

A judge has ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities.

Supporters of the union, which represents 30,000 prison employees, fear the move will worsen an ongoing staffing crisis.

After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for mental health care in California prisons.

The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

Longtime Alabama lawmaker John Rogers has been released early from his 13-month prison sentence. A federal judge granted ...