Records raise questions about whether corrections staff properly monitored man who died last month in Louisville jail.

In the following excerpt from Breaking Good, author Nikki Mammano recalls an early encounter at Oahu Community Correctional ...

Reports from inside Greater Tehran Prison describe inmates going days without adequate food or water after an attack near the ...

A man arrested on a murder charge early in the early hours of Monday morning was found dead in his cell hours later.

A San Diego judge said he hoped the sentences would show the Sinaloa cartel and Mexican Mafia that they can’t get away with outsourcing murders to young teens ...

The Alabama Solution,” a smuggled cellphone chronicle of inmate deaths, sexual abuse and deplorable conditions inside what ...

Inside the Montezuma County Detention Center, deputies move through the corridors in rubber-soled boots while inmates wear machine-washable orange Crocs. Men’s uniforms are color‑coded by security ...

In a January incident, an inmate with a record of staff assaults sent two officers to the hospital after he was moved from high security to low security due to a lack of bed space. The Michigan ...

Years after voters amended the state's constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards "compel and coerce" work.

California correctional officials are investigating the death of a Monterey County convict at Pelican Bay State Prison as a ...

Sheriff Nick Smith denies wrongdoing as investigators probe Tony Mitchell’s death. Mitchell died after being held in a cell known as “The Freezer.” ...

The jail death of a man who suffered from mental illness drew criminal charges against Alabama guards. The sheriff says he’s done nothing wrong.