After only one San Luis Obispo County Jail inmate was transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from September ...

One of the groups, decARcerate, has circulated an online petition against the ban. The group said the policy would be the ...

Two years after Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers voted to lengthen dozens of prison sentences for criminal convictions, ...

Part of the issue with responding to holdbacks has been the growing cost of housing each inmate. For an out-of-state contract ...

An inmate who died the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola Saturday afternoon was maced and subdued by officers before ...

Two staff members at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison were injured last week when they were assaulted by inmates, according to a spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Corrections.

Alicia Novas, 20, had a four-month fling with Declan Winkless, 31, while he was serving an 11-year sentence for a series of ...

Betty Dickey recalls the angry young woman at the beginning of a 50-year prison sentence, causing trouble for herself and ...

Minnesota’s first Earned Living Units are reshaping life inside the state prison, even as a budget deal puts the facility on ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest ...

Extra officers are being drafted in to anti-corruption units in UK jails in a bid to identify rogue prison officers after a ...

The agency that manages Pennsylvania’s prison system said Friday that Rockview state prison and Quehanna Boot Camp are ...