The cruelty of Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act plays out over and over again as state seizes inmate assets.

While the Nevada Constitution states that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever be tolerated, it makes an ...

New Orleans' jail is packed beyond capacity, though violent crime is down across the city. More arrests, higher bonds and ...

State Rep. Justin “JJ” Humphrey is calling for an OSBI investigation into the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.

Thomas G. Donlon, who recently took the interim role after Edward A. Caban resigned under a cloud, said the authorities had ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in ...

Donlon admitted to the search in a brief statement released by the department late Saturday night — saying that authorities “took materials that came into my possession 20 years ago and ...

An incident took place at the Shawnee Correctional Center recently, and a local lawmaker is speaking on the matter.

He had a killer final meal. A South Carolina inmate who died by lethal injection Friday chowed down on a hearty multi-course ...

California prison officials are investigating the killing of a Livermore man serving time in Kern Valley State Prison. Guards ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies.

The federal Bureau of Prisons says it has increased staffing in recent months to make up for staggering shortfalls at the ...