The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

A major milestone in the effort to improve rural health care in South Carolina is being celebrated Monday. State and local ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in connection with what federal officials have characterized as a culture of ...

There hasn’t been a prison escape in New York since 2015, but the state has struggled with other security issues, like ...

A spokesperson for the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction says it affected 64 inmates in two housing blocks at Eastern Correctional. NCDAC was able to get temporary AC units to help at the ...

Two more former correctional officers at the former Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin have been charged with sexual abusing female prisoners, bringing the number of guards charged with sex ...

The Legislature did its job passing changes in the wake of two killings; the governor needs to act with speed to make them ...

The Legislature has responded to the recent killings of two inmates by New York State corrections officers inside prisons ...

The Second Look Act, Earned Time Act and Marvin Mayfield Act are a chance to change New York's toxic, unjust prison culture. Entrance to Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County on Dec. 19 ...