A second woman was killed at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione last year during a conjugal visit with her husband, officials ...

After years of sitting empty, SCI Greensburg, the old state prison in Hempfield Township, will soon be coming down.

The controversial plans to possibly close several state prison facilities, as a cost cutting move, continue to make headlines as those opposed to the plan range ...

The last men incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center have been transferred out of the aging facility as of Monday, ...

ELOY, Ariz. (KVOA) - Inmate Dupree Rollins, 22, died on March 23 at La Palma Correctional Center. Rollins was serving a ...

Jail deaths were not independently investigated by Fort Worth police, records show. A potential loophole in Texas law made ...

GEO Group entered into a contract for the "immediate activation" of the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin.

Director Josh Tewalt made Idaho “a shining example of how we can be tough on crime while ensuring those who want to become productive members of society have an off-ramp to a better life,” Gov. Brad ...

Four of the five officials placed on leave have worked for the Department of Corrections for more than a decade.

Convicted rapist Samuel L. Patterson sentenced to 92 years for violent rape of 91-year-old woman in Hancock County, Indiana, ...

Former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who was sentenced to 21 months on campaign finance violations, says he has received a presidential pardon after serving two weeks in federal prison.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A strike that paralyzed New York's prison system for three weeks ended Monday with most workers returning to their jobs and state officials firing about 2,000 holdouts who ...