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, ...

Bryan Kohberger stole four young lives during his minutes-long rampage on November 13, 2022. Now, six months into his ...

The latest tranche of releases has seen the total population in Scotland's overcrowded jails reduce by just 68 so far.

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

Jihadists militias could take control of Shamima's camp in days and potentially set the former ISIS bride free.

Venezuela’s leading prisoner rights organization says that dozens of prisoners were released over the weekend.

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

Top Afghan officials say they want two American detainees released “as soon as possible,” but the Trump administration says a ...

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.

A young former prison officer has been sentenced to three years behind bars after it was discovered that she'd had sex with an inmate - with the lewd romance caught on video ...