An investigation is underway after a 50-year-old state prison inmate was found dead inside his cell, Maryland State Police announced. Billy Sorrow, 50, an inmate at the North Branch Correctional ...

Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

Solitary confinement is being challenged across the US due to its harmful effects on incarcerated individuals and its failure to improve prison safety, with studies and legal cases showing that it can ...

An inmate at the Stiles Unit, Robert Gonzalez, has died of natural causes, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, after being hospitalized.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 58-year-old Beaumont man who experienced a medical emergency while in custody at the West Valley Detention Center. The San Bernardino County Sheriff ’s ...

A state police investigation determined the death of a 46-year-old Snyder County inmate in Clinton County Prison on Nov. 17 was a suicide.

Authorities have identified the El Paso County inmate who died in a hospital Friday as a 35-year-old woman originally from ...