The popular fishing lake in eastern Nevada, which was drained for safety reasons and reached its lowest point in January 2022 ...

ALBANY — The state legislature will soon be undertaking a comprehensive review of the state prison system, coming after the high-profile killing of Robert Brooks by corrections officers at an ...

A Rapid City man died in prison March 24 while serving a sentence for sexual contact with a child under the age of 16 years old, according to a press release from the South Dakota Department of ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — While Dutchess County hopes to hire fired former state corrections officers, Ulster County will not, officials said Monday. More than 2,000 corrections officers were fired ...

A new bill sponsored by Sen. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, would remove inmates from CoreCivic prisons that have death rates twice the average of state prisons. As CoreCivic receives state funds on ...

TELFAIR COUNTY, Ga. — When Juan Ramirez died at Telfair State Prison, the Georgia Department of Corrections listed his death as natural causes. He was only 27 years old. But a lawsuit filed by ...

A California inmate convicted of killing four people is now being accused of killing his wife during a conjugal visit at a prison in November, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Several Central New York counties want to hire state correctional officers fired for striking, but they haven’t been able to because guards were decertified by the state when ...

Christy and Paul Akeo were arrested on March 4 and have been denied bond, their family said. Their arrests followed a dispute with a resort company over credit card charges, the family said ...

DENVER — Two Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) parole employees are under criminal investigation for forgery and first-degree official misconduct, according to records obtained by 9NEWS ...