Three inmates are now charged for the brutal attack at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center earlier this month that injured five correction officers — with one stabbed 12...
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A Maryland judge on Wednesday indefinitely postponed a resentencing hearing for convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, after Virginia rejected a request to...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Just days before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send...
The Massachusetts Department of Correction was notified of the assaults at 6:20 p.m. Inmates at Massachusetts’s only maximum-security prison attacked and stabbed two corrections officers multiple...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no governor in the...
Christina Cardenas won a $5.6 million settlement five years after she underwent a strip search while visiting her incarcerated husband, which she said was a ‘sexual...
The first meeting of the South Dakota Corrections Commission in nearly a year drew calls for transparency and accountability from commissioners, lawmakers and members of the...
Michelin star from behind bars? Inmates at an Ohio prison with a penchant for cooking whipped up a five-course meal over the weekend and served it...
Joshua Zimmerman, 30, had escaped from the DeSoto County courthouse in northwest Mississippi on June 14, the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office said. A man wanted on...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary to increase shade and take other steps to protect prisoners...