No one checked on Blair Medford after he covered the window to his jail cell. But they should have, state regulators say.

An inspector general report found there were no limits on how long federal inmates could be kept in restraint chairs or ...

Signs of squalor are everywhere: inmates sleeping on floors, rotting food, piles of trash, inoperable toilets, broken pipes, ...

The disgraced music mogul, 55, could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted of sex-trafficking and racketeering.

Inspections at Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles reveal severe neglect, mold, and unsanitary conditions. Inmates suffer from respiratory issues, lack basic hygiene supplies, and live in overcrowded ...

Three city Department of Correction officers were indicted by the Bronx district attorney Tuesday in an alleged scheme to cover up one officer’s alleged assault of an inmate on Rikers Island ...

Dauphin County jail administrators had to return tablets to men in three segregated units, one week after they confiscated the electronic devices. The administration quietly took the tablets on June ...

PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the convictions and sentences of a death row inmate from Hawaii in the killing of his mother in Arizona.