A judge has ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to women’s prisons after ...

The women said they were beaten and sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints by Central California Women’s Facility ...

An Ohio corrections officer is suing after she said she was attacked by an inmate at a prison. The woman was employed at the ...

After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for ...

A woman from Albany, New York, has pleaded guilty to mailing drug-soaked documents disguised as legal paperwork to prisons ...

Jamie Cooper, 33, absconded from a GEOAmey prison van which was on its way to Lancaster Magistrates' Court in Preston ...

Oklahoma plans to execute a murderer on Friday, Wendell Grissom, who shot two women near Watonga 20 years ago.

They were American tourists hoping for a good time, they said. Then they became captives of an autocratic government.

Anthony Williams, 41, Connor Brown, 22, and Zacharia Luz, 42, were killed in the July 30 fight at Ely State Prison.

Nevada prosecutors say 20 people have been charged in connection with a brawl at a maximum-security prison in eastern Nevada last year in which three inmates were killed and others were injured.

South Carolina authorities arrested two former corrections staff members and one former inmate Friday on charges ranging from sexual misconduct to conspiracy. Antoinette Briana Crawley ...

An inmate at a British Columbia prison has been charged with second-degree murder over a death in a cafeteria fight. Homicide investigators say Therae Racette-Beaulieu has been charged in the ...