As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

When U-46 middle school students head back to class in August, the cellphones and smart watches they bring with them will be ...

Jackson Vogel is charged with first-degree intentional homicide as a hate crime for the August 2024 death of Micah Laureano ...

A correctional officer at California Medical Facility in Vacaville was attacked and injured while trying to remove an inmate ...

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When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have ...

On Nov. 29, 2022, Ricardo Mathews — son of legendary funk singer Rick James — was serving time in Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. Mathews left ...

Jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and Jackson, Mississippi, don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when ...

As a trial looms for the man accused of killing the 19-year-old in a hate crime, Laureano's mother seeks answers — and ...

Casey Smith, 30, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly assisting two of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice ...

Border Patrol issued a search warrant May 16 for multiple cell phones belonging to smugglers and migrants aboard the panga ...

The original prison closed in 1927 and ... and deep-set windows that hint at a darker past. My suite combined three former cells, two for the bedroom and one for a bathroom with a huge tub ...