An inmate was found dead in a cell at Northern State Prison in Newark last week, officials said. Darrell Foye, 60, was found unresponsive at 4:40 p.m. on March 4, the state Department of Corrections ...

The Madison Police Department said three people were charged in a murder conspiracy that was orchestrated from inside a maximum security Alabama prison.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, who was not in the building when the victim ...

John Robert Bond, a federal inmate, was sentenced to 57 months for threatening to bomb a Beaumont prison administrator's home.

R. Kelly leaves a North Carolina prison’s Special Housing Unit after officials found no wrongdoing tied to a retired warden’s ...

The Correctional Service of Canada is finalizing plans to cut all prison librarian positions at federal institutions, in a ...

One officer said: "Dudes, you killed that dude." ...

The York County Sheriff wants to take corrective action when it comes to the county’s corrections officers.

Records obtained by KCTV5 Investigates show his county email account was never deactivated — and he used it.

Sheriff Nick Smith denies wrongdoing as investigators probe Tony Mitchell’s death. Mitchell died after being held in a cell known as “The Freezer.” ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

Around 2 a.m. Saturday, a spokesperson for the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said corrections officers found two unresponsive inmates inside a housing unit at the detention center.