DETAILS ON THAT CASE FROM INVESTIGATORS. STATE CORRECTIONS IS NOW INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF AN INMATE. THE INMATE WAS FOUND DEAD THIS MORNING IN HIS CELL AT MULE CREEK STATE PRISON IN IONE.

State officials plan to release hundreds of incarcerated people in NY, citing staffing shortages tied to the firing of 2,000 prison workers who refused to return to work following the end of a strike.

Up to 700 incarcerated people in New York will be eligible for early release under a new measure aimed at addressing staffing shortages in the state's prison system, state officials said Wednesday ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks after the state fired more than 2,000 guards who went on ...

Project Prison Reset’s task force will tour the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls as well as the rural site in Lincoln County where the state had focused on putting the penitentiary ...

Rep. Conor Casey, D-Montpelier, did not mince words describing Vermont’s use of a for-profit, out-of-state prison to hold more than 100 people: “I know it’s cheaper, and it’s cheaper for a ...

Miranda Barbour, 30, made the allegation in a suit filed in U.S. Middle District Court against 11 officials at the women’s prison including the alleged perpetrator Kenneth Jones. Barbour ...

While the city moves to redevelop the prison grounds, a Near Eastside group has started a separate project to tell former inmates' stories.

The San Quentin State Prison ... transferring 670 condemned inmates into the general prison population. The prison is known for housing bloodthirsty serial killers and other dangerous offenders ...

(AP) — A plan to build a 3,000-inmate prison in Arkansas hit a roadblock in the state Senate on Tuesday, while the Alabama Legislature gave final approval to ensure funding for another mega-prison.