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 ...

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 ...

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

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that the final defendant involved in a drug and gun investigation in Craven ...

After a man died from a treatable illness in Tulsa’s city jail, records reveal a pattern of preventable deaths and ignored warnings.

Christopher Marx, an inmate at the Pima County Jail, alleges his life was put at risk because proper precautions were not taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during his time in custody.

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 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.

State correctional officials said an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison from Monterey County died Monday in an apparent homicide.

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