Thomas Blomquist was given a three-year deferred sentence for felony mistreatment of prisoners and six-month deferred term for misdemeanor official misconduct.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

Exclusive: The scale of prison neglect uncovered as figures show almost half of prisoners who took their own lives did get the care they are entitled to ...

On Tuesday at 1:03 p.m. a winter storm warning was issued by the National Weather Service valid from Wednesday 10 p.m. until ...

A coroner has hit out at multiple failures in prison and healthcare services at HMP Lowdham Grange which led to the spate of ...

A woman suspected of killing three members of the same family by poisoning a Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison cell in Brazil. Deise Moura dos Anjos was found without vital signs during ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in ...

After several meetings since June on the possibilities for a new jail, the Fond du Lac County Jail Ad Hoc Committee released ...

The Untold Stories" and "1968: A Folsom Redemption," explore the art of individuals affected by the prison system.

In a plea agreement filed in late January, Benjamin Shoemaker agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy against rights as well as two counts of deprivation of rights.

EVIL Josef Fritzl could be freed from jail this year and believes he will be met with people “cheering and wanting to shake ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...