The Madison Police Department said three people were charged in a murder conspiracy, including an inmate in the Alabama Department of Corrections, who authorities believe orchestrated it.

A former Army National Guard member who had spent eight years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State opened fire ...

The Protection of Prisoners’ Rights under International Human Rights Law: A Comparative Analysis of International Standards and the Kuwaiti Legal Framework This article examines the protection of ...

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

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. Medicaid is now paying ...

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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.

Less than a month before being released, a Texas inmate threatened to “blow up" a Bureau of Prisons administrator's home once he made it to freedom. He's been sentenced to nearly five more years in ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - A Wyandotte County detention officer is on unpaid administrative leave after being charged with ...

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

A federal jury has convicted a 24-year-old inmate already serving a life sentence for his role in the violent kidnapping and robbery of a rideshare driver.

Cedric Allen Ricks, a Texas death row inmate convicted of killing his common-law wife and child, is set to be executed tomorrow.