Prison officials plan to install air conditioning for all prison beds by 2026 as rising temperatures pose growing health ...

Air conditioning has been added to the Bristol County House of Correction’s Women’s Center. Not only inmates but staff are ...

An incarceration summer study committee will convene for its first of three meetings on June 23, to examine SD's prison ...

Authorities in North Carolina say an escaped inmate fatally shot a detention officer with his own gun, then fled in a stolen vehicle before being captured in another county.

WILLIAMSPORT — The inmate who stabbed an Allenwood Federal Penitentiary corrections officer in the eye in 2020 is competent to stand trial, the prosecution and defense agree.

As summer hits Central Virginia, some inmates at Greensville Correctional Facility are on day 10 of living in a building with faulty air conditioning.

Linda de Sousa Abreu, 31, was filmed having sex with armed robber Linton Weirich while ignoring messages on her radio at ...

AUBURN — The Maine Department of Corrections gave the Androscoggin County Jail a near perfect score on its biennium ...

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their un-air-conditioned cells during the summer.

Authorities said Tra'Von Johnson, 22, who escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail about a year ago, had accomplished the same feat again.

The 11th Circuit Court of Criminal appeals has sided with a man who was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire of Montgomery ...

Prisoners without pillows, sightings of rodents and bugs, cell temperatures over 90 degrees in the summer and meals served without drinks. And the kitchen where inmate meals are prepared at Garden ...