A repeat offender who taunted a fellow inmate at Altcourse Prison and encouraged him to kill himself turned violent when ...

Michael Paul Ownby is accused of beating and stabbing Fred Harris, who died a few days after the attack at the Harris County ...

Council is the co-founder of the prison advocacy group Free Alabama Movement and has sued Alabama prisons dozens of times ...

In Sierra Leone, militants attacked military barracks, a prison, and several other facilities. As a result, 20 people were ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The family of an inmate who died while in custody at the Shelby County Jail is suing, claiming deputy ...

An inmate was killed Wednesday in an attack by two other prisoners at a maximum-security facility in California.

Mr. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd during a 2020 arrest, was ...

Jovian Motley worked a double shift that day. His mother said he should never have been in the cell where he died.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation say two inmates killed another inmate at the California ...

Marcus Donald was strangled in a jail cell by another inmate in 2022. He had been eligible for release from jail for about 12 ...

Another former correctional officer at the federal prison in Dublin has been sentenced for sexually abusing women who were ...

Though several inmates were involved in the killing during Nebraska's 2017 Tecumseh prison riot, Eric Ramos was the only ...