California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating after a death row inmate was killed at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Friday. Convicted murderer ...

A prison officer who continued to smuggle drugs into jail even after she had been arrested is now behind bars herself. Chelsea Kemp, 32, was sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court to eight and a half ...

A Jefferson County man convicted of murder in a rock-throwing spree that killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday. Joseph ...

As law officers search Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin ...

Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison. If nothing changes, he'll be released more than four years early. A jury convicted Bankman-Fried of seven counts of fraud ...

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Trump’s plan to expel alleged gang members to El Salvador relies on the country’s 36-year-old prison director, whom U.S. officials have sanctioned for ...

A Fresno man, who was already serving time in a northern California prison, allegedly attempted to kill a correctional officer with an improvised weapon, according to the California Department of ...

NEW ORLEANS — A maintenance worker at Orleans Parish Prison was arrested Monday night on accusations of helping facilitate the escape of 10 inmates during a jailbreak last week, WWL Louisiana ...

The prison officials discovered the cat sneaking over a barbed wire fence, according to video posted online Prison officials in Costa Rica caught an unlikely suspect attempting to smuggle drugs ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom today called for the closure of another prison in his new budget proposal, which would be the fifth facility closed under his watch, though he didn’t specify which institution ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) says its Stillwater prison will be undergoing a phased closure as part of the state’s economic plan, as well as decrease the amount of current ...

More walls, more bars and more guards." Prison reform is one of the hardest sells in government. Hospitals, schools, defence - these are all things you would put on an election leaflet.