A former Harris County detention officer who switched departments just weeks after being caught on camera violently slamming a woman to the ground was able to secure a job at the Houston Police ...

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

(NewsNation) — A Texas death row inmate slated to be executed Wednesday is giving what could be his last interview. Steven Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of Pastor Clint Dobson at a ...

TUCSON, AZ — A civilian kitchen worker is suing the State of Arizona after she was violently sexually assaulted inside the Tucson prison by a high-risk inmate who was left unsupervised.

It also bars the Bureau of Prisons from using any federal funds for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” ...

A Texas police union jokingly called out a “tattling” driver who captured video of police officers doing donuts in a snow-covered parking lot — but the banter soon went “off the rails.” ...

Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, is surrounded by razor wire, tall fences and towers manned by guards with rifles. Mark Boster Los Angeles Times A Sacramento County inmate at ...

Getty Images/istockphoto A federal correctional officer has pleaded guilty to beating a handcuffed inmate, breaking several of his ribs, in the man’s cell at a central Florida prison ...

Retention and recruitment issues aren’t unique to Tarrant County Jail, although other Texas facilities appear to be worse off, as the state's prisons operate with an officer vacancy rate of 70%.