After multiple inmate deaths, lawsuits, and a pending Department of Justice investigation, the Charleston County Sheriff's Office says it's prioritizing transpa ...

Eight inmates at Kern Valley State Prison have been charged with murder in the stabbing death last year of another inmate.

Aventiv Technologies, which provides telecommunications services to correctional facilities, struck an agreement with a group of lenders to take control of the company in an out-of court restructuring ...

A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy convicted of killing a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, the maximum sentence, by a judge who said ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections responded to our request for those staffing figures, disputing some of the information ...

NPR first reported on the case of Charles Givens, a disabled inmate at Virginia's Marion Correctional Treatment Center, in ...

The Fresno City Council sent a message to the parole board — keep the Tower Rapist in prison. A victim speaks out.