San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie this week notched an early victory with the Board of Supervisors in his crusade against the ...

The Northumberland County Jail saw a decline in inmates over the past two months, according to prison officials. Warden Tom ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said authorities should now move quickly and pursue criminal charges against those responsible for ...

Two inmate deaths occurred at Shelby County Jail within 24 hours: one suspected overdose and one apparent suicide.

A federal judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a request to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and ...

Last May, deteriorating conditions and frequent lockdowns in San Francisco jails prompted a tense public hearing in front of ...

It has been 45 years since one of the deadliest prison riots in U.S. history. It all happened here in New Mexico.

The Muskingum County Sheriff's Office is searching for escaped inmate Wayne Pletcher, last seen in Zanesville.

CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — The search continues in North Carolina for a man accused of escaping a detention center through the building’s ventilation system. Sunday afternoon, John Matthew Nigh was ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman behind bars solicited other inmates to kill her family and promised them a cut of her $2 million inheritance, Florida authorities said. Tureygua Inaru, 31 ...

A Black jail inmate who was slammed into bunkbeds, thrown facedown and then dragged backward across the concrete floor by a rope clipped to his handcuffed wrists is suing a Washington state ...