An inmate who was inside the Charleston County Jail at the time of a 23-year-old woman’s death is detailing the graphic ...

An Orleans Parish district judge handed down two life sentences to Derrick Groves, the New Orleans inmate who had spent ...

Young men housed in Connecticut’s adult prisons have spent long periods in isolation, receiving almost no programming or mental health services, few visits, little recreation and frequent strip ...

An Indiana correctional officer faces felony charges after allegedly using a condom and Kraft cheese to traffic drugs to an ...

Confessed killer and inmate Bryan Kohberger is reportedly considering desperate measures to force the Idaho Department of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois Department of Corrections plans to file a permanent prison mail scanning rule by Dec. 3, but state lawmakers and advocates hope IDOC takes input seriously after ...

Families of Illinois prison inmates and legal advocates spoke out this week against a new program at the Illinois Department of Corrections that restricts incarcerated people’s access to incoming mail ...

Long before it became an ICE detention center, the Miami Correctional Facility was constantly beset by violence fueled by gangs and drugs.

State and federal officials recently announced that Miami Correctional will house ICE detainees in a partnership that could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds. The facility ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Indiana State Police are investigating an inmate death at the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) South Bend Community Re-Entry Center. Police say IDOC staff found ...

(The Center Square) – Despite a myriad of ongoing issues at the Illinois Department of Corrections, state senators approved the nomination of Acting Director Latoya Hughes to stay in charge with a six ...