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.

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

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 ...

Deputies said on Tuesday, Sept. 17, David Brown Banks was found guilty by a Yancey County jury of trafficking in opium or ...

Jurors heard a one-minute extract from a phone call between Jason Jones and his mother in which he seems to justify his actions.

Stabbings, escapes from cages and getting out of restraints are some of the incidents correctional officers are reporting to ...

"The video shocks the conscience," said the union, which is pushing for security reforms across Massachusetts prisons.