Senate Corrections Chairman Juan Barnett's effort to close Mississippi State Penitentiary has died for a second year.

After two recent incidents caused several staff and inmates to be sent to the hospital, the state has locked down Upstate ...

A former West Virginia prison guard was convicted earlier this week on charges related to the 2022 death of an inmate at ...

President Donald Trump ordered construction of a deportee detention camp with room for 30,000 migrants on the U.S. naval base ...

After rejecting multiple plea deals, 18-year-old Tramontez Lockett has taken an Alford plea for charges of second-degree ...

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living ...

It's time for the Green Bay Correctional Institution to close. There is no excuse for the conditions in which inmates live ...

Lori Streeter, the Franklin County Jail and House of Correction’s superintendent and special sheriff since 2014, has been ...

Demaurea Grant is charged with 1st degree murder in the death of Brad McNew, a JSO corrections officer. Makayla Huggins is ...