It’s a story ABC15 broke earlier this year: an inmate in the 4th Avenue jail complex was accused of murdering his cellmate, ...

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Shawn Smith-Brearey pleaded guilty to murder on Nov. 19 and was sentenced on Feb. 13 to the maximum punishment of 50 years ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

It also bars the Bureau of Prisons from using any federal funds for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” ...

A Texas police union jokingly called out a “tattling” driver who captured video of police officers doing donuts in a snow-covered parking lot — but the banter soon went “off the rails.” ...

Getty Images/istockphoto A federal correctional officer has pleaded guilty to beating a handcuffed inmate, breaking several of his ribs, in the man’s cell at a central Florida prison ...

Retention and recruitment issues aren’t unique to Tarrant County Jail, although other Texas facilities appear to be worse off, as the state's prisons operate with an officer vacancy rate of 70%.

Owing to overcrowded prisons, Sweden is currently in talks with other nations to rent space in their prisons. Representational image/Pixabay The Swedish government is contemplating a huge step of ...

Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Most inmates in Wisconsin’s federal prison, and in federal prisons nationally, are U.S. citizens. Following Trump administration arrests of ...